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John J. Sweeney (1934-2021), AFL-CIO President Emeritus

John Sweeney, who led an era of transformative change in America’s labor movement, passed away Feb. 1 at the age of 86. Sweeney was one of four children born to Irish immigrants in a working-class Bronx neighborhood shortly after the Great Depression.

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Labor Spotlight- A. Philip Randolph

A. Philip Randolph

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How the Coronavirus Pandemic May Be Causing Support of Labor Unions to Rise

“This pandemic has amplified [public support] even more. It showed how helpless workers are without a union. They couldn’t even get PPE and unions were able to get it for them,” says Trumka. “For years and years and years, people that we call ‘essential workers’ were invisible.

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Biden Moves Quickly to Show Union Workers That Democrats Care

Major labor leaders like Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, are more optimistic about the prospects for organized labor than they’ve been in many years. “I know what he is.

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UWUA Family Member Pursuing Master of Public Health; Union Plus Scholarship Deadline This Weekend

The 2021 Union Plus Scholarship application deadline is this Sunday, Jan. 31.

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