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Happy National Apprenticeship Week!

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Election Recap and Forward

06 Nov, 2024

As the dust settles on an unprecedented election, Wisconsin’s union members are proud of our accomplishments and are looking to the future.

Go Vote!

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Richard Trumka: Why I Quit Trump’s Business Council

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump stood in the lobby of his tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and again made excuses for bigotry and terrorism, effectively repudiating the remarks his staff wrote a day earlier in response to the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Va.

17, Aug, 2017

Wisconsin AFL-CIO Outlines Key Principles for a Good Foxconn Deal

Family-supporting wages, strong workplace safety, freedom to stand together as a team in union are hallmarks of good job creation

01, Aug, 2017

Budget Tweaks

Working families have been attending Joint Finance Committee budget hearings with our budget summary in their back pocket to sound the alarm on many of the harmful proposals ou

11, Apr, 2017

Budget Breakdown

The Wisconsin State AFL-CIO has been analyzing and breaking down Gov. Walker’s proposed 2017-2019 biennial budget. The budget is 989 pages long and make no mistake, there’s many provisions that will hurt working families and rollback workplace rights in Wisconsin.

30, Mar, 2017

Know Your Voting Rights

Important elections are coming this fall. In addition to electing the next president of the United States, we will be voting for members of Congress, and state and local leaders.

15, Sep, 2016

What It Means To Be an American

One night at his UPS job, Tefere Gebre's co-worker handed him some union material.

“He told me that I’d get health care and vacation and other benefits by filling it out. I said, ‘Are you serious?’ I thought, ‘Hmm. Everyone should have that.’”

02, Sep, 2016