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AFSA President Mark Cannizzaro was elected to the AFL-CIO Executive Council during the opening session of the labor federation’s 30th Constitutional Convention in Minneapolis.
Delegates to the AFL-CIO's 30th Constitutional Convention voted to reelect Liz Shuler as president and Fred Redmond as secretary-treasurer, extending the leadership team's tenure at the helm of the nation's largest labor federation.

As another school year comes to an end, many of us find ourselves in a familiar place, looking back on the months behind us while already beginning to think about the year ahead.

You can buy and eat Oreo cookies again. Just make sure they’re made in the U.S.A., especially in Portland, Ore., not in Monterrey, Mexico.
For educators and administrators, these new updates serve as significant wins and a step in the right direction.
Now that we are settling in for the school year, students and educators have been adapting to our new COVID-19 world.
Get involved with your union. If we are going to make change, not only for our profession and the children we serve, but for our larger community, we need every voice to be heard.

Hotel rooms should be cleaned every day. It's what guests expect and pay for.

But using COVID-19 as an excuse, Hilton is ending automatic daily housekeeping, trying to forever change the guest experience and cut housekeepers' jobs. Many travelers might not know that when rooms don't get cleaned, housekeepers lose out on the jobs they depend on to raise a family. 

"Hilton is trying to take advantage of pandemic disruption to cut services like automatic daily housekeeping," says D. Taylor, international president of UNITE HERE.