AFL-CIO Staff

Meet Shekina Givens. She is an AFGE member and lead transportation security officer for the Transportation Security Administration and works at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport. She and her co-workers are in constant danger of getting COVID-19, but they show up for work to protect the traveling public every day. Learn more about her and other TSA workers during these dangerous times. 

Working people are on the front lines in the fight against the COVID19 virus. AFL-CIO presents a new series of videos of workers speaking about the pandemic and what it's like to confront it head on.

The U.S. economy gained 273,000 jobs in February, and the unemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 3.5%, according to figures released Friday morning by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

When Congress passed a $2 trillion tax cut for corporations and the wealthy in 2017, we warned that the obscene cost of these tax cuts bill would be used as a pretext to cut programs that benefit working people.

At a meeting held in Chicago Saturday, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka (UMWA) assured Mexican-American political, labor, community and religious leaders that the U.S. labor movement will work to ensure that any new trade agreement raises the standards of living for all working people across North America.

Working people across the world lost an important champion last week when Barbara Shailor passed. Shailor spent her life dedicated to helping improve the lives of working people, particularly women, both in the U.S. and around the world.