Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO President, died on August 5, 2021 at the age of 72 after a lifetime of service dedicated to America’s working families. He worked to guide the labor movement amidst rapid changes with his signature emphasis on capital stewardship, organizing rights, global solidarity, and working-class political power.
Read more →Please help spread the word about an opportunity for college seniors, recent graduates, or rank-and-file activists who are interested in trying out a job in the labor and workers’ justice movement. Applications for the 2019 WILL Empower Apprenticeship Program are now open, and are due April 15.
Read more →October 29, 2019, will mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the first International Labor Conference (ILC), held in the Pan American Union Building in Washington, D.C., under the nascent International Labor Organization (ILO).
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If there is going to be a revival of the U.S. labor movement, it’s likely that women are going to lead it.
Read more →WILL Empower is a bold and ambitious new initiative to identify, convene, train, and nurture a new generation of women labor leaders.
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Do you have activist students who have questions about how best to build a life around making social change? Do you want to find a classroom resource that weaves together a range of post-war social movements? Looking for ways to inspire hope in the age of Trump?
Read more →Scholars, labor practitioners, and activists from across the country will convene in Nashville, TN to share new ideas and lessons learned, and connect around research and campaign work. We hope this conference is an opportunity to develop an offensive strategy in the changed political climate nationwide, and to learn from the unique challenges faced by organizers and researchers in the South and in right to work states, including from active campaigns in the Nashville area.
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Sexual harassment is both a labor and gender justice issue. After all, the workplace is the epicenter of women’s recent outrage about sexual harassment and assault. Hollywood titans, respected reporters, and celebrity chefs all used their power over women’s paychecks in order to gain power over their bodies.
Read more →This will be the first Labor Day since America rediscovered its working class — or, more accurately, one part of its working class. If there was any consensus in the aftermath of last November’s election, it was that elites had lost touch with working people.
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America rediscovered its working class during the 2016 election, and many Democrats and progressives now call for fresh policies to address the nation’s crisis of bad jobs and stagnant wages. Twenty-first century working-class prosperity, however, must involve a reinvigorated labor movement.
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