AFL-CIO Blog

  • Take Action: Support Delta Flight Attendants Fighting for a Union!
    Take Action: Support Delta Flight Attendants Fighting for a Union! Thousands of flight attendants at Delta Air Lines are organizing for fair wages and better benefits. Management is spending millions of dollars trying to stop them. Will you support the flight attendants as they fight for a union? In recent years, Delta had nearly double the profits of any other airline in the industry. All thanks to the people behind those profits—Delta flight attendants. Delta flight attendants are organizing with the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA) for a real voice on the job, for work rules management can’t just change on whim, and for industry-leading compensation and work rules that match flight attendants’ contribution to the industry’s leading, most profitable airline. So in 2019, flight attendants at Delta launched their organizing drive and have been fighting for a union ever since. Even in the face of management’s union-busting. If you support Delta flight attendants and their fight for a union, become a supporter now. Kenneth Quinnell Fri, 09/30/2022 - 13:04 — Sep 30
  • Hispanic Heritage Month Profiles: Francisco Tostado
    Hispanic Heritage Month Profiles: Francisco Tostado Throughout Hispanic Heritage Month, the AFL-CIO will be profiling leaders and activists to spotlight the diverse contributions Hispanics and Latinos have made to the labor movement. Today's profile features Francisco Tostado. Francisco "Paco" Tostado has been an integral member to the labor movement in Iowa and beyond for nearly two decades. He is a dedicated advocate for workers and union members, as a member, a steward and now a union representative for Tyson. Kenneth Quinnell Fri, 09/30/2022 - 10:00 — Sep 30
  • Service + Solidarity Spotlight: California Labor Federation Secures Top Priority with Signing of Farmworker Organizing Bill
    Service + Solidarity Spotlight: California Labor Federation Secures Top Priority with Signing of Farmworker Organizing Bill Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we'll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. After a long struggle, the labor movement in California won big on Wednesday when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill that will expand the freedom to organize, without retaliation and harassment, more farmworkers in the state. This legislation, which is a top priority of the California Labor Federation—and its newest affiliated union, the United Farm Workers (UFW)—comes after months of collective action that included a 335-mile march across California’s Central Valley this summer. “In this historic time when workers want a union more than ever before, everything we do—including legislatively—must be focused on organizing,” California Labor Federation Executive Secretary-Treasurer Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (IBT) declared. “It’s natural that in California, our farmworkers will be leading the way.” Kenneth Quinnell Fri, 09/30/2022 - 09:56 — Sep 30
  • Hispanic Heritage Month Profiles: Anthony Neira
    Hispanic Heritage Month Profiles: Anthony Neira Throughout Hispanic Heritage Month, the AFL-CIO will be profiling leaders and activists to spotlight the diverse contributions Hispanics and Latinos have made to the labor movement. Today's profile features Anthony Neira. Anthony Neira has managed LIUNA Local 113 since 2010, becoming the first Latino business manager for the local. He got his start at Spancrete, a prefab concrete structure plant, and worked his way up until he was hired by the local. Recently, Neira helped secure a project labor agreement on a major solar project in southeast Wisconsin. He is a dedicated member of the LCLAA Milwaukee Organizing Committee, working to restart the Milwaukee chapter. Kenneth Quinnell Thu, 09/29/2022 - 10:00 — Sep 29
  • Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Support AFM’s Campaign for American Music Fairness Act
    Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Support AFM’s Campaign for American Music Fairness Act Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we'll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. The bipartisan American Music Fairness Act (S. 4932) was introduced last week in the U.S. Senate by Sens. Alex Padilla of California and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) said its members are thrilled to see progress being made in the movement to finally pay musicians, singers and artists when their music is played on the radio. Incredibly, the United States is the only nation besides North Korea and Iran that has no law requiring a broadcast performance royalty for sound recordings to be paid to artists, musicians and singers. The American Music Fairness Act is designed to remedy that and provide royalty payments to artists, session musicians and vocalists when their recordings are broadcast over AM and FM radio. Union members across the country are invited to join AFM’s campaign to help right this wrong and pass this legislation. Contact Congress today and tell them to pass the American Music Fairness Act. Kenneth Quinnell Thu, 09/29/2022 - 09:54 — Sep 29