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Wilfred Arceneaux is a server at the Atlanta Airport and an LGBTQ advocate. He canvassed in Atlanta as part of UNITE HERE’s Take Back the Senate campaign to elect labor-endorsed …

A longtime union leader, Corean Holloway works as a laundry attendant at the Warwick Hotel Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia. She canvassed her city full time to get out the vote …

In August 2020, artist Rayneese Primrose, a member of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 764, discovered that her Lady Liberty artwork was selected by the Rockefeller Center as part of the …

“Today, working people are one step closer to freely exercising our most fundamental rights on the job,” said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. “The PRO Act will strengthen workers’ ability to …

One of life’s constants for Sheila E. comes down to a simple phrase: follow the beat. Sheila is a Grammy and Emmy Award-nominated singer/songwriter behind the seminal hits “The Glamorous Life” …

John Clayton is a natural born multitasker. He is a member of the American Federation of Musicians. His accomplishments include a Grammy Award and eight nominations. He is a composer, …

The famous slogan, “I Am A Man,” is credited to William Lucy, who was elected president of Public Services International in 1994, the first African American to hold the post. …

President Biden on Wednesday honored the late John Sweeney, former leader of the AFL-CIO labor union, calling him “a giant of the American labor movement, and a good man.” Sweeney …

John J. Sweeney, a New York union researcher who climbed to the pinnacle of the American labor movement in the 1990s, leading the AFL-CIO for 14 years through an era …

We at the AFL-CIO urge the Biden administration and Congress to seize this opportunity to transform the lives of working people through bold, structural change, starting with the following five …