What We’re Doing Select typeArticleEventMedia HitMultimediaReportResolutionSpeechStatement Apply February 2, 2017 Blog Leaked Executive Order Will Harm Workers’ Rights on the Job AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka issued the following statement in response to a leaked executive order from President Donald Trump's administration. January 31, 2017 Blog What Working People Want from a Supreme Court Nominee It is expected that Donald Trump will announce his nomination for the Supreme Court seat previously occupied by Antonin Scalia. As always, working families take a keen interest in judicial... January 30, 2017 Blog 6 Facts You Need to Know About a Federal Hiring Freeze Last week, President Donald Trump instituted a federal hiring freeze with no end in sight. Beyond this, he directed the Office of Management and Budget to develop a long-term plan... January 25, 2017 Blog Trumka: Don't Roll Back Gains for Workers In two op-eds this week, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka called upon Donald Trump to embrace policies that will help working people, not roll back the hard-fought gains that so many... January 10, 2017 Speech Trumka at Catholic University: Labor Will Stand United and Strong in Defense of Immigrants Instead of uprooting and deporting aspiring Americans—our coworkers and our neighbors—we really must embrace each other, because we’re not separate and we’re not autonomous. Instead of building walls, we must be bound together in solidarity