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"We need a comprehensive worker-centered approach to AI," AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said in an interview. "So if lawmakers aren’t going to do it, then we’re going to do it."

The AFL-CIO’s Largest-Ever Midterm Program Turned Out Working-Class Voters in Key Elections

Philz Coffee Workers in California Join UFCW

A new report details how immigration enforcement lowers wages and raises costs for working families, regardless of immigration status

When Starbucks in Scottsboro, Alabama, voted “yes” for the union in 2022 – the town made infamous in the 1930s when an international campaign saved nine young Black workers from the gallows – there was no doubt that this campaign was here to stay.

After years of decline, union membership in the US increased by 411,000 members in 2025, the largest increase since 2008.

It’s fine to say that [data centers will] be built with good-paying union jobs but what we’re also looking for on behalf of the working class is long-term sustainability of jobs. It doesn’t help if those jobs come at the cost of many long=term jobs.

Liz Shuler, President of the AFL-CIO, told some world leaders at Davos that if we don't manage the transition to AI well, people could revolt.

The AFL-CIO held its 30th convention in Minneapolis, where less than a week later, several unionists were arrested for their anti-ICE resistance. Minnesota unionists say now is the time to translate AFL-CIO recognition into concrete support.

A federal judge declined to pause expanded Labor Department reporting requirements that unions say will bury them in paperwork and divert money from organizing and bargaining.