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Action Alert: Call to Restore Veterans Affairs Workers’ Union Rights

Action Alert: Call to Restore Veterans Affairs Workers’ Union Rights

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the backbone of support for our nation’s brave heroes, providing essential health care, benefits and services that veterans have earned through their service.

But the VA is under attack.  

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Read More > Action Alert: Call to Restore Veterans Affairs Workers’ Union Rights

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“Immeasurable suffering to fund Billionaires,” Secretary Julie Su joins Union Leaders and Legislators at Briefing on the Protect LABOR Act

“Immeasurable suffering to fund Billionaires,” Secretary Julie Su joins Union Leaders and Legislators at Briefing on the Protect LABOR Act

On Thursday, May 1, lead sponsors, union leaders, and partners hosted a briefing on H.2086 & S.1327, An Act

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Read More > “Immeasurable suffering to fund Billionaires,” Secretary Julie Su joins Union Leaders and Legislators at Briefing on the Protect LABOR Act

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Joint Apprenticeship Training Centers (JATCs) in Dorchester host Massachusetts Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer for a Tour

Joint Apprenticeship Training Centers (JATCs) in Dorchester host Massachusetts Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer for a Tour

Chief Hoffer saw firsthand how union craftspeople are at the forefront of green job training and learning their trade through state-of-the art union apprenticeship programs with a focus on building decarbonization/improving energy efficiency through HVAC upgrades and heat pumps.

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Read More > Joint Apprenticeship Training Centers (JATCs) in Dorchester host Massachusetts Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer for a Tour

Members at an AFGE rally with their kids holding a sign saying "Dignity, Fairness, Respect."
Take Action: The White House Just Ripped Up Union Members’ Contracts

Take Action: The White House Just Ripped Up Union Members’ Contracts

Last night, the Trump administration took its most blatantly anti-worker, anti-union action yet: an executive order stripping the right to organize from hundreds of thousands of federal workers at more than 30 agencies.

 

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Read More > Take Action: The White House Just Ripped Up Union Members’ Contracts

Statement on ICE’s Detention of SEIU Local 509 Union Member Rumeysa Ozturk and Yesterday’s Federal Collective Bargaining Executive Order

“The MA AFL-CIO strongly denounces federal immigration authorities’ detention of Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student at Tufts and a union member with SEIU Local 509.
 

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Read More > Statement on ICE’s Detention of SEIU Local 509 Union Member Rumeysa Ozturk and Yesterday’s Federal Collective Bargaining Executive Order