(MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA) – Last week’s 30th National AFL‑CIO Constitutional Convention was a step towards strengthening Organized Labor’s fight back against the Anti-Worker Trump regime and building Working-Class unity. Convention Delegates re-elected President Liz Shuler and Secretary‑Treasurer Fred Redmond, welcomed the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) back into the fold after two decades, and set ambitious organizing goals for the Mid-Term Elections and new Union organizing. The spirit of solidarity was also proclaimed in several important resolutions passed at the convention. One affirmed that fighting racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia is central to economic justice and Trade Union dignity. Another demanded a pathway to citizenship and denounced the mass deportation agenda and ICE terror by the Trump Administration. A third laid out an industrial policy, called for guardrails on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and recognized the need for new jobs in climate‑resilient infrastructure. A fourth declared health care as a basic right, demanded single-payer health care and defended the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) from corporate attacks. And - in a sharp rebuke to a Democratic Governor, the convention condemned Virginia’s Gov. Abigail Spanberger - a former CIA Agent, for vetoing Collective Bargaining Legislation for Public Workers that she had promised to support. Virginia’s ban on Public Sector Bargaining, the resolution correctly noted, is inextricably tied to the State’s history of segregation and racism. All of this reflects a Labor Movement that is increasingly willing to take on the billionaires and the political establishment.

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