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Social Security faces a long-term shortfall that would be easy to fix if Republican lawmakers listened to voters. Republican and Democratic voters alike support addressing the shortfall through revenue increases, not benefit cuts.

Today’s labor movement has been built to rely on forms of power that are all going away.

Our commitment as the AFL-CIO, as the Labor Movement, is we’re not going to be looking back in 10 years like we did with the air traffic controllers saying we should have done something. We’re going to use every resource that we have.

The American Library Association and a union representing more than 42,000 cultural workers nationwide have filed a lawsuit contesting the Trump administration’s deep cuts to the federal agency that supports the nation’s libraries.

Unions are calling for the release of abducted union members and political organizers who are being swept up in the Trump Administration's campaign of terror against working people. Sign this call and add your name.

The official statistics show that gender gaps in the division of household labor have closed significantly over time. Why are so many women still so frustrated?

Too many unions have responded to Donald Trump’s historic attacks on federal workers with little more than words. To beat back his anti-union assault, organized labor needs to break with decades of timidity.

The ongoing influence of slavery and Jim Crow means high poverty rates and low economic mobility in the South

Can worker-to-worker organizing allow unions to scale up and help reverse the labor movement’s long decline?

Workers deserve the right to collectively bargain, full stop.