(MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA) - Convention Delegates from across the Nation’s largest Labor Federation have re-elected Liz Shuler and Fred Redmond to lead the National AFL-CIO as President and Secretary-Treasurer, respectively.

When elected to their first full terms in 2022, the team made history: Shuler as the first elected Woman President of the AFL-CIO and Redmond as the highest-ever ranking Black Labor Leader.

During their time in office, they have grown the AFL-CIO from 57 to 65 Affiliated Unions, including the affiliation of the two million Service and Care Workers of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and supported new organizing to bring the collective Membership of the Federation to 15 million Workers and growing. 

Said Shuler: “Serving as President of the AFL-CIO has been the honor of a lifetime and I am deeply moved to be re-elected for a second term. My Union story is like so many others, growing up in a Working-Class Family that scraped to get by from paycheck to paycheck until our lives were changed by an IBEW (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) Apprenticeship. Our family lived the ‘Union difference.’ Financial stability overnight, a career with skill and dignity for my Dad, and a passion for organizing - that turned into a lifelong mission - for me. I am extraordinarily grateful for the trust that this Movement has placed in me and I will continue to lead our Federation in delivering that ‘Union difference’ and changing lives for Working Families across this country just like mine.”

Said Redmond: “In just two generations, my family went from Mississippi sharecroppers to living in poverty on the South Side of Chicago to me becoming the highest-ranking African American in the history of the American Labor Movement - and it’s all because my Dad got a union job at an aluminum mill and became a member of United Steelworkers Local (3911). When I joined my Dad at the mill, I also joined a movement and a legacy of Trade Unionists who sacrificed and fought to make our jobs safer, our workplaces more equitable and our society more just. At this unprecedented moment, with attacks on Worker and Civil Rights from the most Anti-Labor Administration in history and the wealthy and well-connected consolidating power and profit, we will be led by that history and continue their fight. I’m honored to be able to do that alongside my partner President Shuler and my Union Brothers and Sisters.”

​In their second term, President Shuler and Secretary-Treasurer Redmond are committed to: Mobilizing to put more Pro-Worker candidates into office; Organizing to ensure Working People can make their voices heard and have their votes ​a​t the ballot box count, without fear or intimidation; Continue to grow Union Power in every workplace,​ organizing millions more Members and build​ing an economy for Working People; and Fighting back against corporate greed and pushing forward the AFL-CIO’s Workers First AI Agenda, so Workers are empowered with ​a​ seat at the table​ and a say in Artificial Intelligence (AI) development and implementation ​on the jobsite, training and upskilling​, and protections for their Civil Rights and basic right to organize. 

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