More AFL-CIO Convention coverage here than anywhere else

Many of our hardest working union sisters and brothers, along with many friends and allies, just completed the most important AFL-CIO convention in history.

And People’s World reporters were on the scene! We had a great team in Los Angeles reporting on the many facets of the convention: John Wojcik, Blake Deppe, Rossana Cambron, Eric A. Gordon, Juan Lopez, and our great colleague from PAI, Mark Gruenberg.

Here is a list of People’s World articles and videos through September 13 so you can be sure you didn’t miss any of the significant developments.

And Keep reading at peoplesworld.org or on Kindle or Google Currents.

Articles from Peoplesworld.org by John Wojcik, Blake Deppe, Eric A. Gordon, Juan Lopez and Mark Gruenberg:

AFL-CIO demands end to anti-gay job discrimination

Labor Secretary Perez vows to grow middle class, “so help me God”

Labor opens house to all U.S. workers

In bold resolution, AFL-CIO calls for labor law overhaul

Iraqi union leader: “War not over for our workers”

Labor’s house opens door wide: Let’s work together

Firefighters union leads somber 9/11 commemoration

AFL-CIO warns Congress on immigration: no back burner

Ethiopian immigrant Tefere Gebre shakes up labor organizing

Trumka urges “culture shift” to build “real working class movement”

As matter of survival, unions double down on diversity

Durazo: Labor must fight for all who work

Social media and labor: a perfect, and necessary, match

Domestic workers come out of shadows, into labor movement

Elizabeth Warren at AFL-CIO meet: “If we don’t fight, we don’t win”

Labor takes a look behind kitchen door

Young workers are hot topic at labor journalists meet

AFL-CIO blasts big business prison profiteers

How to build our union movement: Ideas from LA

“Mr. Clean” gives guest workers a dirty deal

AFL-CIO crafts compromise to prevent dumping of health care law

AFL-CIO to unite with allies for job safety

Videos by Rossana Cambron from People’s World YouTube channel:

Hareth Andrade-Ayala, Immigration Activist re-recites her poem “America”

Jamaican guest worker speaks to the gathering of Jobs With Justice social at the AFL-CIO convention

Clip of the press conference where Resolution 5 at the AFL-CIO 2013 convention, which welcomes all workers, including LGBTQ to their ranks

Clip of the press conference at the AFL-CIO convention to push for dignified immigration reform

AFL-CIO opens itself up to non-union working people. Here Richard Trumka calls up non union workers whom the unions have helped in their struggles

Taxi Workers Alliance driver gives his thoughts on the Building a Diverse Movement for Shared Prosperity held prior to the start of the AFL-CIO convention in Los Angeles 2013

Richard Trumka addresses the press prior to the opening of the 2013 National AFL-CIO convention in Los Angeles

Photo: AFL-CIO convention


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People’s World is a voice for progressive change and socialism in the United States. It provides news and analysis of, by, and for the labor and democratic movements to our readers across the country and around the world. People’s World traces its lineage to the Daily Worker newspaper, founded by communists, socialists, union members, and other activists in Chicago in 1924.

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