AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler and AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond bumping fists and smiling at the camera.

Hi John,

One hundred days ago, we were elected president and secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO. And ever since, we’ve been working on making our convention agenda come to life.

Workers are organizing everywhere: nurses; retail workers; sheet metal workers and painters; aircraft mechanics; researchers; hotel workers; and even architects and cannabis workers.

The list literally goes on and on. And we love to see it.

A special welcome goes out to the 1,200 new members of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA). Welcome to the family, let’s play ball!

We’re hoping to add even more union members through other new initiatives—like fighting for hundreds of thousands of good union clean energy jobs.

The Center for Transformational Organizing will develop, implement and scale powerful campaigns for unprecedented union growth. Our goal is to add 1 million union members and reverse a 40-year decline in union membership.

We will also be launching the Permission to Dream project. Our unions will create pathways to apprenticeships for high school students in urban and rural areas. We’re determined to connect young people with good union jobs in the trades.

Finally, we are gearing up for the midterm elections on Nov. 8, which is centered around worker-to-worker conversations, where we’ll fight for a national legislative agenda that makes it easier to organize in the workplace while strengthening and protecting our democracy.

Working people have the power to make a difference, especially the state and local labor movements. We’ll mobilize young workers organizing across the country, and elect representatives who fight for working people—not corporations and the rich.

These past 100 days have been a challenge. But we’ll continue to learn so we can serve the labor movement to the best of our ability.

We’ll talk again soon.

In Solidarity,