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Action Alert: Call to Restore Veterans Affairs Workers’ Union Rights

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the backbone of support for our nation’s brave heroes, providing essential health care, benefits and services that veterans have earned through their service.

But the VA is under attack.  

Action Alert: Call to Restore Veterans Affairs Workers’ Union Rights

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler Slams House Budget Passed in the Dead of Night

Working people across the United States regularly step up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our Service & Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. 

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler Slams House Budget Passed in the Dead of Night

100 Days of Speaking Truth to Power

In the past 100 days, President Trump, Elon Musk and their unaccountable DOGE have fired or targeted for firing at least 121,000 federal workers. They’ve been ripping up u

100 Days of Speaking Truth to Power

Take Action: The White House Just Ripped Up Union Members’ Contracts

Last night, the Trump administration took its most blatantly anti-worker, anti-union action yet: an executive order stripping the right to organize from hundreds of thousands of federal workers at more than 30 agencies.

Take Action: The White House Just Ripped Up Union Members’ Contracts

Workers Memorial Day - April 28

This year on Workers Memorial Day, April 28, we will remember workers killed, injured or made ill on the job while we “Fight for Our Lives” and demand “Safe Jobs Now!”

Workers Memorial Day - April 28

AFL-CIO President Responds to Trump’s Joint Address to Congress: 'The Solution…Won’t Come from Political Parties; It’ll Come from Us'

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued a video response to President Trump’s joint address to Congress Tuesday night. In the video, Shuler speaks about the country’s working class, “united,” she says, “in how fed up they are with the system we live in.”

AFL-CIO President Responds to Trump’s Joint Address to Congress: 'The Solution…Won’t Come from Political Parties; It’ll Come from Us'