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AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler on the future of America's labor movement

Liz Shuler is the first woman ever elected president of the AFL-CIO.

She took over a time when the world of work has been turned upside down.

Union organizing is happening in some unexpected places, and sometimes in ways that disrupt the traditional union playbook.

AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler on the future of America's labor movement

Climate Jobs NY Update: Carbon Free & Healthy Schools Training

On Tuesday, April 12th, the Worker Institute’s Labor Leading on Climate Initiative and Climate Jobs NY delivered a Carbon Free & Healthy Schools training.

Climate Jobs NY Update: Carbon Free & Healthy Schools Training

Support Theatre Workers Fighting for a Union Contract

Actors’ Equity Association has filed with the NLRB to bargain on behalf of the actors and stage managers on the national tour of Broadway’s Waitress, which is running concurrently with a unionized tour.

Support Theatre Workers Fighting for a Union Contract

Four More Starbucks in Downstate NY File for Union Elections

On the heels of the massive union victory at the NYC Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Chelsea earlier this month, and unanimous wins at stores across the country over the last few days, four more stores in NYC a

Four More Starbucks in Downstate NY File for Union Elections

Transport Workers Union President Talks Transit Heroes and Subway Safety on NPR

After Tuesday's horrific attack in the Brooklyn subway, transit workers, members of Transport Workers Union Local 100 helped passengers escape to safety, and their heroic quick thinking likely sa

Transport Workers Union President Talks Transit Heroes and Subway Safety on NPR

32BJ SEIU Essential Building Service Workers Rally on Park Avenue, Authorize Bargaining Committee to Call for a Strike

On Wednesday, an estimated 10,000 building services essential workers, including 32BJ SEIU members from New York to Washington, D.C.

32BJ SEIU Essential Building Service Workers Rally on Park Avenue, Authorize Bargaining Committee to Call for a Strike