Tarrant County Central Labor Council

The Tarrant County CLC, AFL-CIO HQ is closed indefinitely. The CLC will continue operations with officers and staff working remotely.

THE VOICE OF LABOR IN TEXAS

We are teachers, firefighters, and farmworkers, actors and engineers, pilots and public employees, painters and plumbers, steelworkers and screenwriters, doctors and nurses, stagehands, electricians, and more. We believe that people who work make Texas work and that together, we are better.

 

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When a natural or man-made emergency strikes, Texans generally support each other to overcome adversity.  But unscrupulous individuals will try to take advantage of tragedy.  Be on the lookout for price gouging, flood-damaged vehicles, and other post-emergency scams that may arise.

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Wrapping up 2020, Looking to 2021

Here is a word from our President Brian Golden 

John J. Sweeney (1934-2021), AFL-CIO President Emeritus

John Sweeney, who led an era of transformative change in America’s labor movement, passed away Feb. 1 at the age of 86.

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