Each week, we take a look at the biggest friends and foes of labor. We celebrate the workers winning big and small battles, and we shame the companies or people trying to deny working people their rights.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka released the following statement in reaction to Donald Trump’s economic plans.

Anniversaries can be celebratory or somber. Today we celebrate the 51st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and it is the kind of anniversary in which we hail the success of the Act while also acknowledging the deficiencies in our democracy that make the full Act necessary.

The NFL Players Association (NFLPA), in conjunction with the National Football League, strengthened its commitment to the health and safety of its players last week by announcing an agreement to enforce the league’s game-day concussion protocol and discipline clubs that violate it.

The U.S. economy added 255,000 jobs in July and unemployment was unchanged at 4.9%, according to figures released this morning by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Admit it, if you like sports at all, you're probably starting to get a little excited about the Olympics. For the second straight Olympic Games, all of the clothing the American athletes will wear in the opening and closing ceremonies will be made in America.

The real world is quite complicated. We make sense of it for the purposes of assessing policies by using the shorthand incorporated in accepted myths and memories. For instance, James W. Loewen explains how the many “facts” that can be brought to bear to explain the Civil War have been condensed into a myth that the Confederacy was about protecting states’ rights and intersectional differences over policies from an overpowering federal government. This myth, or the sense of memory that most Americans have in understanding the Civil War, of course masks the racism inherent in most right-wing extremism in the United States today. That “memory” of the Civil War lets people look past the racism of Donald Trump, to interpret him as heir to that stream of Americana of someone who bravely battles the meddling federal government in Washington.

Now that one-percenter Carl Icahn has announced that he will close the Trump Taj Mahal rather than negotiate with working people, Marty Rosenberg looks back at how the casino's troubled history really began when Donald Trump took over. Here's Rosenberg's story.

Bob McDevitt, President of Unite Here Local 54, released the following statement after Carl Icahn announced he would close the Trump Taj Mahal rather than negotiate with the casino's working people.

In addition to passing resolutions on the economic agenda for working women and prescription drug prices, the AFL-CIO Executive Committee passed numerous resolutions today. Click on the link for each resolution to read more.

During last week's Democratic National Convention, one of the many powerful moments was when former New York Police Department detective Joe Sweeney spoke about his experiences on Sept. 11. He described the experience.

This week, the AFL-CIO Executive Council received a new publication, The Responsible Investor Handbook: Mobilizing Workers’ Capital for a Sustainable World. Authored by Thomas Croft and Annie Malhotra of Heartland Capital Strategies, the handbook documents how union members’ pension plans helped pioneer the responsible investing movement. Today, investors with more than $60 trillion in assets globally have become signatories to the U.N. Principles for Responsible Investment.

Are you upset by prescription drug prices that are way too high?

We all come to unionism and activism in our own way. I came to it through an injury—fate is funny that way.

I was fortunate to have been on “Beverly Hills 90210” because it allowed me to move forward with my own talk show and then go on to other movies and television jobs. It’s been an amazing experience.  And I loved being on a hit show—who wouldn’t? But, then…

In an essay for the National Catholic Reporter, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka writes about how approaching politics requires an abundant worldview if you want to achieve shared prosperity.

At the end of his first visit to the United States, United Nations special rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and association, Maina Kiai, starkly delivered his conclusions in front of an international crowd at the U.N. office in Washington, D.C.

Each week, we take a look at the biggest friends and foes of labor. We celebrate the workers winning big and small battles, and we shame the companies or people trying to deny working people their rights.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka released the following statement as we celebrated last week’s ADA Awareness month and 26th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The political landscape has shifted because working people collectively bargained for, fought for and won pay raises in historic fashion. The time is ripe for a new economic agenda for broad prosperity, and organizing and collective bargaining are the best tools to achieve the economy that works for all. Working people are standing up and speaking out for a voice on the job, which means the right to join together to demand better wages and working conditions without fear of firing or retaliation. We also are helping to win legislation that positively impacts everyone. These latest worker wins show what the power of collective voice can achieve.