Arizona AFL-CIO

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Violence Has No Place in the Workplace

Patt Moon-Updike wanted to be a nurse since she was 9 years old.

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Amid Game Industry Layoffs, AFL-CIO Says It’s Time for Workers to Organize

On Feb. 15, just days after massive layoffs at Activision Blizzard, the AFL-CIO issued a powerful public statement of support to game developers in the United States. Its message, published in an open letter at Kotaku, was both simple and profound.

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Now That Government is Funded, Here is What Workers Want to see

Last year, in communities all across the country, millions of Americans mobilized and called for an economy that works for all of us.

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Number of Workers Striking in 2018 the Most in Three Decades

More workers were involved in strikes and other labor disputes in 2018 than at any point in the past three decades, fueled by widespread teacher protests last spring, according to data releas

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Big Labor 2018 Campaign Kickoff Saturday June 9th

Bob Grossfeld on Thursday, June 7 2018 - 5:41pm

AFL-CIO’s Adelante-We Rise! Toolkit

Admin on Thursday, May 11 2017 - 12:00am

Please find below a link to the AFL-CIO’s Adelante-We Rise! Toolkit on Workplace Raids and Audits. We hope that these materials and tools, developed with the support of many of you and others, are helpful and effective in fighting back unjust and inhumane workplace raids and audits that undermine the rights of all working people.

AZ's New Minimum Wage and Paid Leave is now law!

Admin on Monday, January 2 2017 - 1:08pm

Arizona Min Wage now $10 an hour.
Paid sick time starts July 1, 2017

How LGBTQ Union Activists Transformed the Labor Movement

Kim Kelly on Monday, June 10 - 12:39pm

As Pride Month is recognized around the world this year, the rainbow-hued celebration will be colored by hope, fear for the future, and reverence for the queer liberation movement’s radical past.

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AFL-CIO Blog

A Better Trade Deal: The Working People Weekly List — Jun 18
Pride Month Profiles: Jeanne Laberge and Ruth Jacobsen — Jun 18
Get to Know AFL-CIO's Affiliates: Heat and Frost Insulators — Jun 17
Passaic County Central Labor Council Encourages Education with Awards for High Schoolers — Jun 13
Save Our VA!: What Working People Are Doing This Week — Jun 13

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We Need a Better NAFTA

The new NAFTA is another corporate handout. It won't stem the outsourcing of good jobs or protect the rights of working people. Tell Congress the new NAFTA isn't good enough.

Prevent Workplace Violence

Recently introduced legislation would provide needed protections for health care and social services workers from violence on the job. Tell Congress to support an OSHA workplace violence standard.