Labor Action Week
All in for working people
When we work together, changes are made for the betterment of Black workers. When we advocate collectively, employment and advancement opportunities are available for Black people with equal pay, including benefits and clean jobs allowing for better health outcomes.
The NAACP prioritizes fighting for Black workers. We believe that Black workers have a right to earn a living wage with clean jobs that bridge the racial wealth divide. We deserve full rights, protection, and advancement in our work!
Billions of Dollars On the Line
On August 29 at 7 PM ET, join leaders from community, labor, social justice organizations from the 16 cities that will host 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup matches for an informational and organizing webinar about the 2026 tournament. The webinar will be an opportunity to learn about current developments on human rights for the 2026 World Cup, as well as local priorities in cities and states that may be impacted over the next two years.
They Not Like Us - Project 2025 and More
On September 3 at 8 PM ET, join us for a critical conversation focused on the urgent need to protect our labor movement and civil rights against the growing threats posed by Project 2025. While Project 2025 seeks to erode workers' rights, undermine unions, and strip away hard-won protections, labor unions and civil rights organizations are fighting back, dedicated to expanding labor rights and safeguarding civil liberties. This event will spotlight key labor campaigns that are actively pushing back to defend and advance the rights of all workers.
Union leadership has traditionally been a man's world. Women are the backbone of policy, economic security and saving our democracy, and it is timely to have women leading in the workforce space.
- Robin Williams, Chairwoman, NAACP Labor CommitteeHonoring Labor Leaders
William "Bill" Lucy
Past International Secretary-Treasurer, American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
Don Cash
Past President, United Food and Commercial Workers Union's Minority Coalition
Lorretta Johnson
Secretary-Treasurer Emeritus, American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
Liz Powell
Secretary-Treasurer, American Postal Workers Union (APWU)
Advocating for Black Workers
Protection of Cannabis Workers
The NAACP calls for the legalization and de-scheduling of cannabis at the federal level and reaffirms its past resolutions on cannabis, the cannabis industries, decriminalization, and equity, and expresses an intent to advocate for federal, state, and local medical and adult-use cannabis legislation.
Trade and Labor
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National office invest and encourage Units to work to engage with and hold accountable their respective Building Trades Unions in order to resolve any exclusion of Black workers and other racial and ethnic minorities from entering the trades, successfully completing apprenticeship programs and joining the various leadership ranks of the individual unions.
Protection for Whistleblowers
The NAACP reaffirms its support for more protection of whistleblowers at the federal, state and local government levels, the need for more independent oversight to prevent retaliatory behaviors in organizations, and the development of procedures to promote disclosure of misconduct against whistleblowers.