Many of our hardest working union sisters and brothers, along with many friends and allies, just completed the most important AFL-CIO convention in history.
And People’s World reporters were on the scene! We had a great team in Los Angeles reporting on the many facets of the convention: John Wojcik, Blake Deppe, Rossana Cambron, Eric A. Gordon, Juan Lopez, and our great colleague from PAI, Mark Gruenberg.
Here is a list of People’s World articles and videos through September 13 so you can be sure you didn’t miss any of the significant developments.
And Keep reading at peoplesworld.org or on Kindle or Google Currents.
Articles from Peoplesworld.org by John Wojcik, Blake Deppe, Eric A. Gordon, Juan Lopez and Mark Gruenberg:
AFL-CIO demands end to anti-gay job discrimination
Labor Secretary Perez vows to grow middle class, “so help me God”
Labor opens house to all U.S. workers
In bold resolution, AFL-CIO calls for labor law overhaul
Iraqi union leader: “War not over for our workers”
Labor’s house opens door wide: Let’s work together
Firefighters union leads somber 9/11 commemoration
AFL-CIO warns Congress on immigration: no back burner
Ethiopian immigrant Tefere Gebre shakes up labor organizing
Trumka urges “culture shift” to build “real working class movement”
As matter of survival, unions double down on diversity
Durazo: Labor must fight for all who work
Social media and labor: a perfect, and necessary, match
Domestic workers come out of shadows, into labor movement
Elizabeth Warren at AFL-CIO meet: “If we don’t fight, we don’t win”
Labor takes a look behind kitchen door
Young workers are hot topic at labor journalists meet
AFL-CIO blasts big business prison profiteers
How to build our union movement: Ideas from LA
“Mr. Clean” gives guest workers a dirty deal
AFL-CIO crafts compromise to prevent dumping of health care law
AFL-CIO to unite with allies for job safety
Videos by Rossana Cambron from People’s World YouTube channel:
Hareth Andrade-Ayala, Immigration Activist re-recites her poem “America”
Jamaican guest worker speaks to the gathering of Jobs With Justice social at the AFL-CIO convention
Clip of the press conference at the AFL-CIO convention to push for dignified immigration reform
Photo: AFL-CIO convention
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