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Entertainment Union Leaders Demonstrate Unity in Uncertain Time

Entertainment workplaces need more time and data to prepare and change the way show business works.

07, May, 2020

If Trump Wants Meat Plants Open, He Should Protect His Workers

The United States now has more than a million reported coronavirus cases, by far the most of any country in the world. The health of our nation, physically and economically, depends on the safety of our workers.

07, May, 2020

Let’s Protect and Reward Workers Who Are Keeping America Going

As Richard Trumka, the president of the AFL-CIO,wrote in a public letter to the U.S.

07, May, 2020

May 1st ND AFL-CIO Statement on Safety and Reopening

Today, May 1st, known around the world as "International Workers' Day", was born out of the American labor movement, specifically the 1886 struggle for an eight-hour work day and a fight for safe working conditions.

01, May, 2020

Coronavirus at Work: Safety Inspectors Reviewing Scores of Employee Hospitalizations, Deaths

“For all workers, the toll of COVID-19 infections and deaths is mounting and will increase even more rapidly as workers return to work without necessary safety and health protections,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka wrote in the letter, which listed dozens of members who have died f

01, May, 2020

Unions, advocates say Trump putting meat packing workers at risk

The national union that represents workers in meatpacking and food processing jobs, the United Food and Commercial Workers, says the administration should enact enforceable standards instead of guidance that requires protections like protective equipment, physical distancing, daily testing for wo

29, Apr, 2020