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A new report from the Economic Policy Institute shows that tripling union membership would put more than $1 trillion back into workers’ pockets and raise median pay by 14.5%. When workers come together in a union, everyone benefits. Strong union building a stronger economy and better future for everyone.

Tripling US union membership would shift $1.2tn to workers annually – report More density would also narrow racial pay gaps, while a decline in density correlated to surges in wealth inequality

Solidarity isn't just a word. It's how working people win.

Are you feeling the heat of rising energy bills? Individual households will pay $460 more per year for their energy costs by 2035 thanks to policy changes made by the Trump administration and their backers in Congress. Working families deserve better.

Trump promised to cut electric bills in half. His energy policy is doing the opposite, new analysis finds | CNN A sudden electricity crunch in the US is colliding headlong with the Trump administration’s attacks on renewable energy like wind and solar. President Donald Trump presented his anti-renewable stance as a way to cut energy costs — but limiting energy development at a time of high demand has resu...

The AFSCME family is mourning Lillian Roberts, former executive director of DC 37 and a giant of the labor movement.

She organized hospital workers in Chicago and later in New York City. In 1969, she went to jail for two weeks for defying then-Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and leading a strike of state hospital workers. She believed no fight for working people was too hard or too risky.

Roberts was a trailblazer in every sense of the word. She built power for working people at a time when very few Black women held positions of union leadership. She helped found the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and made history as the first Black woman to serve as New York State Industrial Commissioner. She later served as executive director of DC 37, leading the large AFSCME council with extraordinary toughness, vision and commitment to working people. Roberts left a lasting mark on DC 37, on the 1.4-million-member AFSCME family, and on generations of labor leaders who follow her.

A federal judge has blocked the administration’s plan to politicize the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. The ruling came in a case filed by AFSCME members and others who want to preserve the popular program, not to see it exclude public service workers just because their employer may disagree with the administration.

Judge sides with AFSCME workers to protect Public Service Loan Forgiveness program A federal judge has sided with AFSCME workers and others to protect the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program from political interference.