Since 2020, 11 new union locals have joined the American Federation of School Administrators, which now represents some 25,000 school and district leaders in 150 chapters across the country.
The annual ranking spotlights union chiefs who have secured major victories—whether through new contracts, legislation, or organizing wins—and those who have successfully guided members through challenging times.
At 8 years old, his whole life changed, recalls Jeffrey Thomas, Career and Technical Education Operations Specialist at the San Diego Unified School District. During the teachers’ strike of 1977, he and his classmates were sent off on a bus to see Star Wars. When Jeffrey saw that first spaceship fly overhead, he decided to learn all he could about media—and he was transformed forever.
Workers depend on NIOSH to prevent illness, injury and death on the job,” the AFL-CIO said in a statement. “Without this research, more workers will get sick, more workers will be injured, and more workers will die.
Proclaiming Labor Day 2025 unlike any other “in the history of our movement and our country,” AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler reports that workers nationwide are asking her “Why is my future being ripped away?”
Her answer is billionaires and corporations totally control the government and move to exert total control over every aspect of U.S. life. That their leading instrument is Donald Trump. And that the labor movement is—and must be—the biggest force standing in their way.
