President Biden met Wednesday with the executive council of the AFL-CIO, America’s largest federation of trade unions, to shore up support from a critical constituency as he beats back continued calls ...

WASHINGTON — Richard Trumka, the head of one of the nation’s largest labor unions who advocated for worker rights, died on Thursday, a senior AFL-CIO official confirmed to NBC News. Trumka, 72, has ...

Earlier this week, we reported on serious internal drama within the leadership of the AFL-CIO: the labor coalition’s third-in-command had appealed to the executive council to save him from being ...

John Sweeney spent the past 14 years building the AFL-CIO into a political powerhouse for workers’ rights and other Democratic causes. Yet over the same time, the ranks of union members continued to ...

PROVIDENCE – After two decades on the front lines of organized labor in Rhode Island, Patrick Crowley has won election as the new president of the 80,000-member strong state AFL-CIO for the remainder ...

Three building-trade unions representing more than 10,000 laborers, heavy equipment operators, plumbers and pipefitters have left the Connecticut AFL-CIO after a failed effort to oust Ed Hawthorne as ...

Prominent union leaders of the AFL-CIO and United Auto Workers are publicly condemning President Donald Trump's supporters for storming the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka ...

WASHINGTON – The president of the AFL-CIO, John Sweeney, warned dissident unions considering the idea of leaving the federation that their exit could injure the labor movement and play into the hands ...

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HELENA - Some Montana AFL-CIO members are demanding its top leader apologize for sharing its board's position on an issue with the press and urging that the labor group drop out of Leadership Montana.