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THE VOICE OF LABOR IN TEXAS

We are teachers, firefighters and farm workers, actors and engineers, pilots and public employees, painters and plumbers, steelworkers and screenwriters, doctors and nurses, stagehands, electricians and more. We believe that people who work make Texas work and that together, we are better.

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UPDATE! Voices of Texas Working Families Persuade State to Remove Barriers To Coronavirus Unemployment Insurance Benefits

Texas AFL-CIO President Rick Levy issued this statement after the Texas Workforce Commission and Gov. Greg Abbott decided to waive waiting periods and work-search requirements for Texans who lose their jobs because of the coronavirus.

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Coronavirus and Unemployment Insurance What Every Texan Needs to Know

Unemployment Insurance Resources

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Texas AFL-CIO: We Are Heartened by Disaster Declaration; Action to Help Working Families Must Follow

Following Gov. Greg Abbott's Disaster Declaration, Texas AFL-CIO President Rick Levy today issued this statement on behalf of the state labor federation:

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Texas AFL-CIO: To Protect Communities From Coronavirus, Protect Working People

As the coronavirus threatens Texans, the Texas AFL-CIO today called on political and business leaders to take actions suggested by front-line union workers who face elevated risk of becoming ill.

Take Action

Call On Your Governor to Include ALL Workers on the Frontline

Ask Governor Abbott today to include grocery store workers, pharmacy workers, and food production workers as emergency service providers so that they are eligible for the same benefits as other front line workers, like doctors, firefighters, and police officers, when dealing with this pandemic.

What We Care About

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Workplace Rights

We are at a moment when a fighting union organization could kindle the imagination of millions of workers and inspire a new labor movement.

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Better Pay and Benefits

There is something fundamentally wrong with our economy. The rich keep getting richer while working people are working longer hours just to make ends meet. Despite year after year of increased productivity, we are not sharing in the fruits of our labor.

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Trade/Manufacturing

A strong manufacturing sector is essential to our nation’s economic success and to our ability to raise wages and provide family-supporting jobs. But decades of devastating trade policy and attacks on unions have taken their toll.

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Immigration

Since our nation’s founding, immigrants and refugees have enriched the fabric of our communities, our workforce and our labor movement.

Member Spotlight

Areli Zarate • Texas AFT 2048

Our union has kept me going. It has given me hope.

Paul Arebalo • IATSE 205

Being in a union means I have a voice. Whether it's regarding safety, pay or even work practices, my voice will be heard and that's one of the greatest rights I can think of.