Labor leaders and workers rallied on July 9 at the AFL-CIO headquarters to launch the nationwide “It’s Better in a Union: Fighting for Freedom, Fairness, and Security” bus tour. The bus tour will visit 26 states to join picket lines, support organizing campaigns, visit Veterans Affairs and Medicaid-funded facilities and hospitals gutted by DOGE. They will speak to workers whose jobs have been ripped away by unnecessary cuts driven by the Trump administration. Like the civil rights advocates who took to the roads in the 1960’s, these determined and brave people want to make their Union voices heard during an unprecedented attack on workers’ rights. “Working people have been betrayed by this administration—by the elected leaders who sold out the working class to the billionaire class. And we’re going to let them know. We are going to crisscross the country and talk to workers. We’re getting on this bus to make sure they know who sold us out—who is taking our jobs, our health care, our paychecks. To make sure every working person knows there’s a place for them on this bus,” said AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond.
Read the full story by AFL-CIO News, published July 9, 2025, here: https://aflcio.org/press/releases/labor-leaders-workers-rally-launch-afl-cios-its-better-union-nationwide-bus-tour
