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Get the latest statements by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and other officers plus speeches and congressional testimony. Browse by month and/or type of document.

Press Releases

02/03/2012
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on January 2012 Jobs Report
02/01/2012
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka On President Obama’s Plan to Help Homeowners Refinance Underwater Mortgages and Create a Homeowner Bill of Rights
02/01/2012
Statement of AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka on Passage of “Right to Work for Less” Bill in Indiana
01/27/2012
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka On Obama Administration Move to Help Homeowners
01/27/2012
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on 2011 Union Membership Report
01/24/2012
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka On President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address
01/23/2012
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka on Possible Bank Mortgage and Foreclosure Fraud Settlement
01/19/2012
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka On the Second Anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Decision in Citizens United
01/12/2012
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka at UN Investor Summit on Climate Change Proposes “Honest Dialogue between Workers and Their Communities and Environmental Advocates” on Climate Change and the Way Forward
01/11/2012
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on President Obama’s Commitment to “Insource” American Jobs
01/11/2012
CLEAN Wins Over $1 Million In Settlement for LA Carwasheros
01/10/2012
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on Cecilia Muñoz’s Appointment to Director of the Domestic Policy Council
01/09/2012
AFL-CIO Hosts 2012 Martin Luther King, Jr. National Holiday Observance in Detroit
01/06/2012
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on December Employment
01/06/2012
NFLPA STATEMENT ON SO-CALLED “RIGHT-TO-WORK” LEGISLATION IN INDIANA
01/04/2012
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka On President Obama’s Recess Appointments
12/21/2011
Union Families across the Country Decry Republican Members of Congress Who Voted Against Unemployment Insurance and Payroll Tax Cut Legislation
12/21/2011
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on NLRB Election Process
12/19/2011
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on Payroll Tax Legislation
12/16/2011
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the Ryan-Wyden Plan to Cripple Medicare
12/15/2011
New AFL-CIO Report “Crisis in Alabama: Investigating the Devastating Effects of HB 56” Details Humanitarian Crisis Created by HB 56
12/15/2011
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the Department of Labor’s Proposed Rule Extending Minimum Wage and Overtime Protections To Home Care Workers
12/14/2011
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on NLRB Nominations
12/14/2011
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka On Failed Balanced-Budget Amendments
12/12/2011
Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile’s Parent Company, Fails to Live Up to Its Claims on Human and Labor Rights, According to New Report

Speeches

02/02/2012
Remarks by AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka, 2012 CWA Legislative Conference, Washington, DC
01/31/2012
Remarks by AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka, Northwest Indiana Federation of Labor Annual Awards Dinner, Highland, Indiana
01/17/2012
Richard Trumka Response To the Report of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness Road Map to Renewal
01/12/2012
Remarks by AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka, Jewish Labor Committee's 41st Human Rights Awards Dinner, New York City, NY
01/12/2012
Remarks by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka UN Investor Summit on Climate Risk
12/14/2011
Remarks by AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka to the OECD, Washington, DC
12/12/2011
Remarks by AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka, Americans for Financial Reform Conference "Executive Pay and the Dodd-Frank Act", AFL-CIO Building, Washington, DC