North Dakota AFL-CIO

09/02/2026

🎒 Back to school means new backpacks, new pencils... and back to worrying about lunch bills. 💸

No family should have to choose between paying for school meals and covering rent, gas, or groceries.

This November, we can change that. Vote YES on Measure 2 and help build a future where every kid eats at school, no cost to families. 🍎

📚 Learn more and get involved: https://www.facebook.com/share/1Ldk2QpfmF/

09/02/2026

Join your union brothers, sisters, and siblings at our 2nd Annual Celebration of Labor as we celebrate the power of the labor movement.

Enjoy a meal, build community, and recommit to the fight for worker power, good jobs, and solidarity to protect the rights and freedoms of all workers!

# # Union Members, Families, & Supporters Welcome! # # # Join your union brothers, sisters, and siblings at our 2nd Annual Celebration of Labor as we celebrate the power of the labor movement. # # # Enjoy a meal, build community, and recommit to the fight for worker power, good jobs, and solidarity to pr...

08/26/2026

She is urging other workers who believe they are not being paid properly to document everything and speak up if they think something is wrong.

“If this can happen to me, it can happen to anybody, and it’s just not fair,” Vogel said.

The former employee says Teddy’s Eatery & Back Alley Bar still owes her more than $6,000 — even after the state ruled in her favor.

08/25/2026

Students, educators and staff across the country are heading back to school or getting ready to! As we get our kids and their classrooms prepared for a great year, make sure they’re set up for success with union-made supplies. https://aflcio.org/SchoolSupplies

08/25/2026

School’s in. Target’s out.

This back-to-school season, America’s unions join AFT in asking families to shop locally instead of at Target, when possible—and put their dollars behind businesses that stand with our communities. https://www.shopsmart.aft.org/

08/13/2026

Solidarity with our union family at the Minnesota AFL-CIO.

“It didn’t work in the 1950s when Joseph McCarthy accused anyone he didn’t like of being unamerican and it won’t work for Donald Trump. The Labor Movement was instrumental in creating America’s middle class and we will not let any attack distract us from continuing our work to improve the lives of working people.”

Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bernie Burnham made the following statement in response to a New York Times report naming the labor federation as part of the Justice Department’s unhinged conspiracy theory relating to the unjust prosecution of 15 Minnesotans and their actions during ICE’s occupation...

08/11/2026

"DuBose in March ​said that ending the contract amounted to unlawful retaliation for the union's opposition to Trump administration labor policies, and ordered the VA to reinstate the ​agreement pending the outcome of AFGE's lawsuit."

A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday ruled for the third time that the U.S. Department ​of Veterans Affairs cannot terminate a union contract covering 320,000 employees, in another blow to the Trump administration's efforts to strip ‌federal workers of collective bargaining rights.

08/06/2026

This is an emergency for working families.

More than 186,000 people accepted help from the Great Plains Food Bank’s network of food pantries in the past year, a new record for the organization.