Milwaukee Area Labor Council

Union Plus’s 6th annual Unions Power America campaign has kicked off and will run through Labor Day, starting with the Hometown Heroes Contest.

Through June 17, union members can nominate themselves or others to win by sharing more about how that union member goes the extra mile on the job, at home or in their community. There are $150,000 in contest prizes:

💰$40,000 Grand Prize (plus a holiday trip for two to New York City)
💰$20,000 First Prize
💰Two $10,000 Second Prizes
💰40 $1,986 Prizes (Union Plus was founded in 1986)

Visit unionplus.org/unionspoweramerica to learn more and to enter the contest.

Save the Date!

WISDOM invites you to their 2026 Gubernatorial Candidate Forum on Monday, June 22, at Waukesha County Technical College, in Building S at 800 Main Street Pewaukee, WI 53072.

Register here in advance- http://bit.ly/4nUZDXa

"Pope Leo writes that, ‘Solidarity, then, is the concrete recognition that the future of each individual is connected to the future of all.’ The AFL-CIO and our 65 affiliated unions have and will continue to answer his call to defend the dignity of working people."

Read the full statement from AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler here-

AFL-CIO: Pope’s First Encyclical on AI Echoes the Fears and Realities of Working People | AFL-CIO AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement on Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, which focuses on the moral and practical danger of unregulated artificial intelligence (AI):