2021 Session Highlights: How States Build a Fairer Economy for Working Families
Bold and forward-thinking state lawmakers are working to build a fairer economy by tackling long-standing structural inequalities.
Workers’ Rights
2020 Session Highlights: How States Support Workers During COVID-19
A review of the most important ways states empowered workers during the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Warning on the Gig Workers Legislation Coming to Your State
Gig companies like Uber and Lyft spent over $200 million to pass Prop 22 in California.
Legislators can protect workers’ rights by partnering with AGs
State attorneys general (AGs) have dramatically increased their involvement in protecting workers’ rights over the past two years.
COVID Resources: Unemployment and Worker Protections
Legislators and partners can implement innovative solutions that will make our workforce and our local economies safer and stronger.
Wage Theft Policy Playbook
No matter where we come from or what our color, most of us work hard for our families. But today, our families, local economies, and communities are being exploited by certain greedy CEOs who are stealing billions of dollars in wages earned by working Americans....
The Labor Movement is #FightingforFamilies in Every State
By: AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler In her response to President Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night, Stacey Abrams encapsulated the sentiment of our current times when she said, “Under the current administration, hard-working Americans are...
Are the Best States for Workers Also the Best States for Business?
By: Michelle Sternthal, Senior Domestic Policy Advisor, Oxfam America Popular rhetoric in the U.S. pits workers against businesses. How often does one hear, “Worker protections saddle businesses and stall the economy! Increasing the minimum wage will scare away...
Unions are Fighting for Families by Supporting Women and Rejecting the Status Quo
As part of SiX’s 2018 #FightingForFamilies Week of Action, Liz Shuler, the Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO wrote a guest blog about the importance of women in the labor movement, and how labor unions are helping advance policies at the state level that support...