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AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler and AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond released the following statement to commemorate Juneteenth:

The AFL-CIO is committed to a future in which workers and their unions shape the future of work, especially as the development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) accelerates across the economy and public sector.

Every worker has the right to a safe workplace. That is a promise made more than 50 years ago on April 28, 1971, when the Occupational Safety and Health Act went into effect.

"With the passage of this year's New York State budget, we have taken another crucial step towards ensuring fairness for our public sector workforce.

Shuler’s main goal — not easily accomplished, given the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence and the hurdles that unions still face — is for labor to have “a seat at the table,” as she puts, in the roll-out of AI, meaning she wants workers to have a voice in everything from how technology i

Albany, NY – Working people are celebrating after the Union Movement’s coordinated grassroots campaign helped push Tom Suozzi to victory.