Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

March 22, 2021 at 10:15 PM

We have a pro-union secretary of labor

The Senate just confirmed Marty Walsh as labor secretary. He’s a proud union brother and will be a valuable ally in our fight to improve the lives of working people.   Hi John,   …

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

March 19, 2021 at 7:28 PM

Retirement security for all working people

Everyone should be able to invest in their future, not just the wealthy. We’re bringing retirement security to working people and using our investments to hold corporations accountable.   Hi John,   For too long…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

March 19, 2021 at 6:02 PM

Women’s History Month: Care work

Care work makes all other work possible. Raising and teaching the young, cooking and cleaning, and caring for the elderly are critical jobs that should have good benefits and pay. Hi John,   Care work is meeting the needs of others: teachin…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

March 18, 2021 at 9:29 PM

Freelancing and the PRO Act

The PRO Act doesn’t stop anyone from doing freelance work. It protects freelancers’ rights to organize and collectively bargain.   Bottom Line Upfront The PRO Act doesn’t stop anyone from doing freelance work. I…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

March 16, 2021 at 2:05 PM

Confirm Marty Walsh and Julie Su 📣

Two longtime labor champions have been nominated to lead the Labor Department. They’re a dream team and exactly who we need right now.   Hi John,   President Biden nominated lifelong champions o…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

March 14, 2021 at 8:03 PM

Women's History Month: Wages

Hi John,   This week, we’re talking about wages.   In the middle of World War II, the War Labor Board declared on Sept. 26, 1942: equal pay for equal work.   In 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, an amendme…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

March 12, 2021 at 9:51 PM

We support Donaldo and Wilna. How about you?

Union members Donaldo Posadas and Wilna Destin tell us why H.R. 6, the American Dream and Promise Act is important for working people.   Hi John,   You may…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

March 11, 2021 at 11:25 PM

American Rescue Plan explained

Let’s be clear: This will help people. The American Rescue Plan funds direct payments, vaccine distribution and health care. We fought for relief and it’s coming.   John,   The American Rescue Pla…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

February 26, 2021 at 3:33 PM

You’re Invited: The Power of the Union Economy

Using our funds to fight for affordable housing, education and corporate accountability.   John,   America’s economy is hurting and workers across the country are suffering. Pro…

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  Tefere Gebre, AFL-CIO · [email protected]

February 23, 2021 at 3:49 PM

Civil rights are worker rights

We share a history and we share a future.   A Message on Black History Month Dear John,   When we fight for workers’ rights, we fight for civil rights.   When Dr. Mart…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

February 17, 2021 at 9:30 PM

We talked with Biden about infrastructure

We’ll build back better with good union jobs.     John,   President Biden hosted a meeting on infrastructure today. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka (UMWA) and AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler (IBEW) attended the kick-off meeting and were joined by la…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

February 7, 2021 at 5:32 PM

Tune in today: Trumka on HBO 📺

Axios’ Jonathan Swan sits down with President Trumka to discuss the labor movement.   John,   AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka (UMWA) is on an all-new episode of “Axios” on HBO, premiering at 6 p.m. ET/PT (check…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

February 4, 2021 at 8:00 PM

Tell your representative: Vote YES on the PRO Act

We’ll build back better with unions.   John,   Call your member of Congress and tell them to pass the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act now!   Working people fought to elect pro-worker lawmakers to the …

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

February 2, 2021 at 7:02 PM

Union support surging during COVID-19

During this pandemic, workers need a voice on the job.   John,   You already know that unions give working people a voice.   But the COVID-19 pandemic is showing more and more people the union difference: better…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

January 27, 2021 at 4:32 PM

Trumka says: Pass the PRO Act now

Protect our right to organize!   John,   We wanted to make sure you saw AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka’s (UMWA) op-ed in CNN yesterday.   President Biden said he wants to give unions more power under his admin…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

January 20, 2021 at 8:04 PM

Support the Workers First Agenda 💪

Top five priorities for improving working people’s lives   John,   It’s time to transform the lives of working people through bold, structural change. We’re asking the Biden adm…

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  Nakisha M. Lewis, AFL-CIO · [email protected]

January 13, 2021 at 6:13 PM

The intersection of labor, racial justice and economic justice: Join us

  John,   Last week, the world watched a mob of domestic terrorists storm the U.S. Capitol, attacking our country and democracy. We must name the role white supremacy played: their special treatment as they roa…

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  Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO · [email protected]

January 7, 2021 at 8:35 PM

Thank you, Georgia. Thank you, John.

  John,   We were going to send this yesterday, but with the attack on democracy, we held it. We’re sending this today because we have hope, and because working people made the difference and it is more importa…

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  Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO · [email protected]

December 16, 2020 at 2:36 PM

This year more than ever: Thank you

  Dear John,   We know this will be a holiday season like no other. Many of us will be breaking with our longstanding tradition, staying home in order to keep our families and communities safe. Essential worker…

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  #SaveThePostOffice · [email protected]

November 17, 2020 at 3:53 PM

John, I need you to call.

We should be expanding and strengthening the Postal Service—not undermining it. John, Thanks to the dedication of postal workers, 65 million Americans successfully cast mail ballots this election. Postal workers put in long hours, did special sweeps of facilities and made…

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  AFL-CIO Election Team · [email protected]

November 3, 2020 at 5:11 PM

John, need help at the polls?

If you experience any issues voting, please call the Election Protection Hotline at 866-OUR-VOTE.   John,   Today is Election Day. Please head to the polls or put your ballot in a drop box so you can make sure …

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

October 30, 2020 at 6:28 PM

Take the pledge: Make every vote count!

John,   We can make the difference on Nov. 3. As union members, we come together and rise to the challenge when our communities need us. And right now, nothing is more important to the future of the labor movement and working families a…

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  ⏰ VOTE EARLY ⏰ · [email protected]

October 23, 2020 at 4:37 PM

John, make a plan to vote early.

We’re less than two weeks from Election Day 🗓️ John,   We’re less than two weeks away from Election Day, and already more than 46 million voters have cast their ballots.   Together, we are beating back efforts to suppress the vote and maki…

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  ⏰ TIME IS RUNNING OUT ⏰ · [email protected]

October 15, 2020 at 7:44 PM

John, Fill out the census. The deadline is TODAY.

  John,   Today, Oct. 15, is the last day to fill out the census! Don't be counted out! Here's how to fill out your census right now: ONLINE at 2020Census.gov by Oct. 15 at 11:59 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time (th…

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  Power the Polls · [email protected]

October 12, 2020 at 6:03 PM

🚨TIME IS RUNNING OUT🚨 John, will you defend democracy and become a poll worker?

John, If you already have cast your early or absentee ballot, there is something else you can do to ensure our democracy runs smoothly. Sign up to become a poll worker on Election Day. Due to the pandemic, this year we’re facing an unprecedented shortage of poll workers, wh…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

October 5, 2020 at 9:50 PM

Request your ballot today

  John,   COVID-19 has exposed and amplified the U.S. electoral system’s many problems, including entrenched inequalities that make it hard for people of color and economically disadvantaged Americans to vote.…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

September 21, 2020 at 7:45 PM

Tell the Senate: HEROES, Not Hypocrisy

  John,   America has lost one of the greatest jurists in our nation’s history—a consistent, unshakable champion of civil and women’s rights and the freedom to form a union.   But we also are mourning 200,000 …

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

September 3, 2020 at 4:05 PM

Watch Live: Worker panels now through Labor Day

John,   Every year we celebrate the hard work and dedication of America’s workers on Labor Day. And this year, more than ever, we celebrate the sacrifices working people are making to provide for our families a…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

August 8, 2020 at 2:09 PM

We can’t allow them to leave us behind.

John,   After a month and a half of the HEROES Act sitting untouched in Mitch McConnell’s lap, the Senate majority leader has finally proposed his own woefully inadequate proposal.   The pitiful proposal barely addresses our national chil…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

July 29, 2020 at 4:56 PM

Reject the McConnell proposal and pass the HEROES Act

? John,   After months of sitting on his hands, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has finally released a proposal for COVID-19 relief. The package is called the HEALS Act, but unfortunately this poorly na…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

July 22, 2020 at 2:12 PM

Tell the Senate: Get to Work and Pass the HEROES Act

John,   It’s hard to believe. Coronavirus cases and unemployment numbers are climbing, but Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sent the Senate home without debating the HEROES Act, the next coronavirus economic relief package.   The House p…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

July 8, 2020 at 6:09 PM

Join us this evening for the Young, Woke and Ready Town Hall

  Dear John,   Please join the A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI) and the AFL-CIO for a Facebook Live event at 6 p.m. ET: the Young, Woke and Ready Town Hall: Checking the Pulse of the Streets. We will hear f…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

June 30, 2020 at 5:28 PM

Help stamp out hunger in your community

  John,   The need for food relief has never been greater and neither is our determination to help. Throughout this COVID-19 pandemic, the labor movement has stepped up to help union members and struggling fa…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

June 23, 2020 at 4:21 PM

Join Us Thursday for All of Us: Out + Essential

  John,   In this moment, when a global pandemic and the subsequent economic fallout are disproportionately impacting LGBTQ people and people of color, we are reminded that the labor movement, the LGBTQ equal…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

June 15, 2020 at 3:24 PM

Join us Wednesday

The Workers First Caravan for Racial + Economic Justice is on Wednesday. Will we see you there? John, The Workers First Caravan for Racial + Economic Justice is on Wednesday, June 17. Will we see you there? We have two staging locations convenient to the Washington, D.C., metr…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

June 11, 2020 at 12:00 PM

Today: Join the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists for a live town hall on racial and economic injustice

  John,   There are many urgent and necessary conversations happening in the black community, the labor community and the progressive community around the death of George Floyd and the impact of COVID-19. We …

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

June 9, 2020 at 3:44 PM

Tell your state officials: We need online voter registration!

John,   We’re just months away from one of the most anticipated elections of our generation—but nationwide, potential new voters are having trouble getting registered.   To protect public health during the COVID-19 crisis, many voter reg…

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  Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO · [email protected]

June 1, 2020 at 4:39 PM

We will never stop fighting for racial and economic justice

  John,   My heart is heavy at the events of the past few days. I watched the video of George Floyd pleading for his life under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer. No person of conscience can hear Floyd…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

May 29, 2020 at 3:06 PM

Hospitality and food service members need our help

  John,   UNITE HERE members desperately need our help. The COVID-19 pandemic is hitting these hospitality and food service members especially hard.   Will you stand in solidarity with them by donating to the…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

May 26, 2020 at 10:01 PM

Tune in Thursday for a Facebook Live conversation with essential workers

John, No one knows better than union members that as the pandemic rages on, the hardest hit people in America have been workers—those on the front lines every day, making sure our country is still running, who are at great risk and often without adequate protection. RSVP h…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

May 15, 2020 at 5:36 PM

Tell Congress: Support H.R. 6800, the HEROES Act

  John,   H.R. 6800, the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act, includes an emergency workplace infectious disease standard; gives aid for state and local governments, public schools, t…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

May 15, 2020 at 1:53 PM

Today: Facebook Live at noon ET on fighting for all workers during COVID-19

  John,   America’s workers are on the front lines dealing with an unprecedented economic uncertainty and a public health crisis during the pandemic.   And unions are fighting for America’s working people.  …

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

May 13, 2020 at 4:11 PM

Save the Date: Fighting for all workers during the crisis

  John,   COVID-19 and the economic fallout from the pandemic has hit working people in this country hard.   Join us on Facebook Live to hear about how we’re fighting for all workers.   Current unemployment …

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

May 7, 2020 at 2:05 PM

Fwd: New virtual concert series to help musicians

John, We wanted to make sure you saw this request from the American Federation of Musicians (AFM). Please contribute to the Musicians’ Relief Fund if you can! And thanks for all you do. In Solidarity, Team AFL-CIO From: Ray Chew Subject: Virtual Fundraiser Date: May 6, …

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

May 4, 2020 at 4:43 PM

Send a Letter: Tell Congress We Need Working People’s Priorities in CARES 2 Relief Package

  John,   Working people are risking our lives across the country, keeping our communities healthy, fed and safe, and we desperately need our country’s support and protection. Too many have inadequate persona…

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  Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO · [email protected]

April 28, 2020 at 5:46 PM

Join me in honoring workers today

  John,   Workers Memorial Day is personal for us. Too many of us know someone who sacrificed everything on the job. My father and grandfather both died from black lung disease. They spent their careers worki…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

April 25, 2020 at 1:01 PM

Resources for parents with school-age children

  John,   We hear you: This is a tough time for parents and families who have school-age kids. With schools closed, some for the remainder of the year, families are learning how to support students’ distance …

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

April 23, 2020 at 2:02 PM

Tell Congress: Protect front-line workers from COVID-19 exposure

  John,   The COVID-19 pandemic is sweeping throughout the United States. Every day, workers on the front lines are being exposed to the coronavirus in their workplaces. Hundreds of thousands of health care w…

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  Team AFL-CIO · [email protected]

April 21, 2020 at 9:54 PM

Tell Congress: During this pandemic, support our public postal service

  John,   As most Americans shelter in place, postal workers are delivering people’s prescriptions, keeping small companies in business and connecting families. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has always been …

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  Rashida Tlaib · [email protected]

April 16, 2020 at 3:05 PM

[Sign the Petition] Tell state and federal elected leaders to follow Michigan’s lead and stop water shut-offs now!

  SIGN THE PETITIONThe federal government and state and local governments must follow Michigan’s lead and stop water shut-offs during the pandemic. John,   Shutting off water access during a pan…

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