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

28 Mar, 2025

“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.

We Proudly Celebrate Black History Month

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Broken Labor Law, Corporate Union-Busting Keep Union Density Flat Despite Renewed Organizing Push, Popularity of Unions

04 Feb, 2025

It’s plain as day that more working people want a union now than at any point in our lifetimes. Across our economy and in every part of the country, workers are standing together to demand fair treatment, better wages, and dignity and respect on the job.

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Buy Union-Made in America

Working people in unions value the hard work and craftsmanship that goes into the products and services we make and provide.

That's why buying "Made in America" products is an important act of solidarity that promotes good jobs in the United States.

31, Jan, 2023

New BLS Data: Union Membership Grows by More than 200,000 in 2022

Bureau of Labor Statistics data released today showed union membership in the United States grew by more than 273,000 in 2022, despite fierce and often illegal corporate union-busting.

19, Jan, 2023

Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

This weekend, we are celebrating the great civil rights leader and our union brother. And we remember the lesson he always emphasized: The fight for civil rights and worker rights are intertwined.

17, Jan, 2023

New Year, New Fights

It’s a new year and we’re ready to support working people across the country—what about you? We’ll keep sharing ways you can protect union values. Take the pledge now that you’ll continue to take action.

13, Jan, 2023

We Applaud the Court's Decision to Protect Our Strong Employment Laws

On behalf of the half million Massachusetts AFL-CIO members in Massachusetts, we applaud the court’s ruling against this effort by out-of-state Big Tech CEOs to manipulate our laws in order to line their own pockets.

15, Jun, 2022

AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler on the future of America's labor movement

Liz Shuler is the first woman ever elected president of the AFL-CIO.

She took over a time when the world of work has been turned upside down.

Union organizing is happening in some unexpected places, and sometimes in ways that disrupt the traditional union playbook.

19, Apr, 2022