COVID-19

What We’re Doing

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Richard Trumka on Amazon Needing to Protect Its Frontline Workers (MSNBC)

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Fighting the Coronavirus: Making Ventilators

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.
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Richard Trumka on Why the Defense Production Act Needs To Be Invoked (Bloomberg)

Executive Council Statement

Working People's Demands in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the AFL-CIO demands urgent action to protect our front-line workers, solve the public health crisis, sustain people as long as the crisis lasts, support state and local governments, and rebuild our economy and put people back to work.
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The Response to COVID-19: What Working People Are Doing This Week

Welcome to our regular feature, a look at what the various AFL-CIO unions and other working family organizations are doing across the country and beyond. The labor movement is big and active—here's a look at the broad range of activities we're engaged in this week.
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Richard Trumka on the Labor Movement Response to COVID-19 (C-SPAN)