SEIU Joins AFL-CIO to Build Unprecedented Worker Power, Win Unions for All Workers

The AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) announced Wednesday that they are reuniting to launch a new, long-term effort to make it easier for workers to win a voice on our jobs with their unions. Two million SEIU service and care workers will join the nearly 13 million-member AFL-CIO, and together, these powerful organizations will push back on union-busting and win for working-class families.

At a critical moment when everything is on the line for the nation’s working people, the labor movement is uniting to challenge the status quo and build a movement of workers who will fight—on the job, in the streets, at the ballot box, in our communities—for higher pay, expanded benefits and new rules that empower them to join together in unions and organize across industries. Read more here, in The New York Times, Washington Post, and Huffington Post.