USA

The TUC has strong and historic ties with the US trade union movement, the AFL-CIO , and the confederations exchange fraternal delegates at each other’s conferences. We have shared interests in organising, world trade and labour standards, and global solidarity (the AFL-CIO has a solidarity organisation – ACILS, or the Solidarity Center – with which the TUC works closely. AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka chairs the TUAC , and the AFL-CIO is a leading organisation in the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. The AFL-CIO now has 9 million members.


The most recent documents available on this subject are:

Reclaim Wisconsin

TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber has sent a message of solidarity to the trade unionists of Wisconsin USA as they demonstrate in the state capital, Madison, on Saturday 10 March in support of the recall of Governor Walker, who, a year ago, tore u...

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8 March 2012
More global solidarity for the NHS

Solidarity messages for the Save Our NHS - 7 March Rally from the national trade union centres of France, USA and Zimbabwe.

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3 March 2012
ACT NOW! Protest to auction house management about US lock-out

The TUC has set up an e-action on our Going to Work website in solidarity with New York employees of the world famous Sotheby's auction house. We want British trade unionists to register their concerns with management in London about what their paren...

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2 October 2011
TUC and British unions expect better of Deutsche Telekom, German Ambassador told

As part of a global campaign by trade unions to get union rights for workers employed in foreign subsidiaries of Deutsche Telekom, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber and telecommunication union General Secretaries Billy Hayes of the CWU and Paul No...

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21 June 2011
Unions raise exploitation of American tobacco workers at BAT London AGM

Union protestors concerned at the poor treatment of migrant tobacco workers in the United States are flying into London today (Thursday) to confront shareholders attending the annual general meeting of British American Tobacco (BAT).

28 April 2011
Tony Burke: why Wisconsin needs global solidarity

Unite Assistant General Secretary and TUC Executive Committee/General Council member Tony Burke spoke about inequality, collective bargaining and global solidarity at the TUC Wisconsin solidarity rally on Monday 4 April.

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4 April 2011



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