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Tefere Gebre’s American journey: From refugee camp to labor leader

Gebre was still a boy when he was forced to flee Ethiopia, a country that suffered political turmoil and famine during the 1980s.

Trump’s Power to Fire Federal Workers Curtailed by Judge

A federal district judge in Washington struck down most of the key provisions of three executive orders that

Executive Paywatch: The Gap Between CEO and Worker Compensation Continues to Grow

CEO pay for major companies in the United States rose nearly 6% in the past year, as income inequality and the outsourcing of good-paying American jobs have increased. According to the new AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch, the average CEO of an S&P 500 Index company made $13.94 million in 2017—361 times more money than the average U.S. rank-and-file worker.

‘We Are All Immigrants’

Tefere Gebre came to the United States in 1984 as a teenager. He and four friends had left their home in war-torn Ethiopia and walked nearly 500 miles across the desert to a refugee camp in Sudan.

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Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect, 2018

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Big Labor 2018 Campaign Kickoff Saturday June 9th

AFL-CIO’s Adelante-We Rise! Toolkit

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!

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

A Manufactured Crisis

Eight hundred thousand workers. That is the number of government employees and contractors impacted by President Trump’s shutdown of the federal government. The average take home pay of impacted workers is around $500 per week, and any financial uncertainty is sure to cause stress and anxiety over how to make ends meet. Each day of this manufactured crisis, working families lose money for housing, healthcare and groceries — the essentials we need to get by.

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Lyndon Baines Johnson Signs the Medicare Bill

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Tell Congress to repeal the tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations instead of cutting the vital programs that benefit nearly one-third of the U.S. population.

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