AFL-CIO president aims to unionize 2 million workers in 5 years
MINNEAPOLIS — Moments after being reelected by representatives for dozens of unions Sunday, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler made an ambitious pledge to unionize at least 2 million workers over the next 5 years.
Meeting that target requires pushing through longstanding headwinds in federal labor law that make organizing a union an expensive and arduous slog, while also confronting new assaults from the Trump administration.
Shuler says union organizers have proved it’s possible. In 2022, she set a goal to organize 1 million workers in a decade, which unions did in just three years, adding bus factory workers in Alabama, doctors in Minnesota and 27,000 educators in Virginia.
“We have shown people all over this country there is a way to fight back, and it’s called the labor movement,” Shuler said. “And now it’s time to use that power to build an economy that actually works for working people.”
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