Hope Will Never Be Silent: What Working People Are Doing This Week

Welcome to our regular feature, a look at what the various AFL-CIO unions and other working family organizations are doing across the country and beyond. The labor movement is big and active—here's a look at the broad range of activities we're engaged in this week.

Actors' Equity:

We are excited to announce the League-Equity Audition Program ("LEAP"): a new kind of audition aimed at giving Equity members the chance to meet directors, choreographers, writers and casting directors who create new work so they can keep you in mind for future projects. https://bit.ly/4tRiNhP

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— Actors' Equity Association (@actorsequity.bsky.social) May 26, 2026 at 3:13 PM

AFGE:

AFGE is grateful to @SenatorHassan and @SenatorLankford for reintroducing the Prevent Government Shutdowns Act of 2026 which would take government shutdowns off the table and force Congress to stay in town until their work is done. 

Thank you for standing up for AFGE members ✊

— AFGE (@AFGENational) May 21, 2026

AFSCME:

The workers at the Seattle Museum of Art are fighting for a voice on the job to improve their workplace. They’ve formed Seattle Art Museum Workers United, joining the wave of 50,000 cultural workers across the country who have formed unions through AFSCME. https://t.co/qYlQ7sVNVQ

— AFSCME (@AFSCME) May 26, 2026

Air Line Pilots Association:

Speaking up for aviation safety and for pilots is core to our mission. That's why we're calling on Congress to include the ADS-B In language from the Senate-passed ROTOR Act in final law. pic.twitter.com/q1RCDNXi40

— Air Line Pilots Association (@ALPAPilots) May 20, 2026

Alliance for Retired Americans:

Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Workers at Planned Parenthood’s Largest Health Care Affiliate Vote to Join SEIU

Working people across the United States regularly step up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our Service & Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story.

More than 400 front-line health care workers at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte have voted to join Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 521.

Members of Planned Parenthood Mar Monte Workers United (PPMMWU) perform essential roles at 30 clinics throughout mid-California and Nevada. This supermajority vote by staff of Planned Parenthood’s largest affiliated network comes in the midst of uncertainty around Medicaid funding and rollbacks on reproductive rights.

“Securing our union secures decisions about our work like staffing, resources, and ensuring a sustainable level of care our patients depend on,” said Ryah Issa, a health services specialist at the Planned Parenthood San Jose clinic, in a press release. “While courts and politicians continue to police our work, our union gives us the power to defend clinical integrity and guarantees our patients receive the comprehensive care we all deserve. Many workers are patients in our clinics, too.”

Kenneth Quinnell Thu, 05/28/2026 - 10:10

Tags: Organizing