Infrastructure

Once a symbol of national pride, our infrastructure is crumbling. Our roads, bridges, aviation, maritime, rail and transit networks need major upgrades. Investment in our infrastructure will increase safety for all Americans and create and sustain good jobs. In turn, such jobs will boost economic development, helping working people in every field. The AFL-CIO has launched a major effort to secure funding and staff to upgrade our nation's aging infrastructure and energy-saving retrofits.

 

C-

The grade America's infrastructure received on the 2021 Infrastructure Report Card.

We’re at a crossroads. Inaction will only worsen the suffering that working people have weathered over the past year. But if we commit to rebuilding our communities on an unprecedented scale, we can get through this crisis stronger than before.” - AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka
Did You Know

Hundreds of union members in Detroit lost their jobs even though Delta Air Lines received at least $5.5 billion in federal coronavirus aid to prevent people from losing their jobs.
$2.6 Trillion

The infrastructure investment gap in the United States over the next decade.

What We’re Doing

Blog

It's Time to Fix Our Roads and Infrastructure with Funding from Congress

Bent rims. Broken springs. Bridges and roads unfit for drivers. Search #FTDR (short for “Fix the Damn Roads”) on social media, and you’ll find countless stories from Michiganders who are paying the price of crumbling, pot-holed roads and highways.
Speech

Trumka in Michigan: 2020 Must Be About Workers

Together, we can put this country back where it belongs...in the hands of the workers who make it go.
Speech

Shuler: Infrastructure Should Be a Priority

Congress supports infrastructure. President Trump calls himself the “builder president.” So get in a room and get the job done!
Speech

Trumka: Machinists Will Strengthen Amtrak, Organize Delta

Fed up with an economic and political system that doesn’t work for them, workers are turning to each other—to us. Every single day, more and more working people are realizing that the single best way they can improve their lives is to join a union.
Legislative Testimony

Trumka Calls for Massive Infrastructure Investment in Testimony Before House Ways and Means Committee

We can create millions of good jobs, increase long-term growth, maintain our position as leaders of a global economy and improve working people’s lives and livelihoods.
Media Hit

Richard Trumka Says the Highway Trust Fund Is Facing a Dire Funding Cliff (The Washington Post, Paywall)