AFL-CIO News
Service & Solidarity Spotlight: New Jersey Juice and Sauce Producers Win Powerful New Contract Working people across the United States regularly step up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our Service & Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 152 members at Lassonde Pappas in Seabrook, New Jersey, have ratified a new 18-month collective bargaining agreement that ensures historic wage increases.The new contract covering electricians, boiler operators, millwrights and quality assurance technicians contains the largest immediate raises in the… [...]
Worker Wins: You've Got To Try Something Different Our latest roundup of worker wins includes numerous examples of working people organizing, bargaining and mobilizing for a better life. AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler Named to TIME’s Fourth Annual List of the TIME100 AI: TIME named AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler to the 2026 TIME100 AI, a list recognizing the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence (AI). Shuler has led the labor movement’s response to ensure workers have a voice in how AI’s development and implementation affect their livelihoods. Under the president’s leadership, unions have won key protections in union contracts related to… [...]
Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Chicago History Museum Workers Ratify First Contract Working people across the United States regularly step up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our Service & Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. After facing intense anti-union retaliation from management, AFSCME Council 31 members at the Chicago History Museum have ratified their first collective bargaining agreement.Workers voted to form a union in 2025, and in the days following the election, the museum’s head of human resources threatened all museum employees with termination, disciplined… [...]
Never Quit: 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. Actors' Equity:Join your fellow members at an Equity Labor Day event near you! This year, we have events happening across the country – be sure to check out the member portal and RSVP for an event in your area. https://members.actorsequity.org/newsandevents/savethedate/labor-day[image or embed]— Actors' Equity Association (@actorsequity.bsky.social)… [...]
Service & Solidarity Spotlight: JTRAN Workers Ratify Contract with MV Transportation Working people across the United States regularly step up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our Service & Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story. After more than a month walking the picket line, JTRAN workers represented by Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1208 in Jackson, Mississippi, have ratified a powerful new agreement with contractor MV Transportation.ATU members staged a work stoppage in mid-July in response to management’s bad-faith bargaining and unfair labor practices. By… [...]