Owensboro Council of Labor, AFL CIO

Workers fought for their union. They shouldn't have to fight endless delays to get a first contract.

The bipartisan Faster Labor Contracts Act (H.R. 5408) would help prevent employers from dragging out negotiations and stalling workers' progress.

The House has acted. Now it's the Senate's turn.

Tell your Senator to pass the Faster Labor Contracts Act and help workers secure a fair first contract.

Take action here: https://act.aflcio.org/letters/workers-deserve-a-fair-first-contract-tell-your-senator-to-pass-the-bipartisan-faster-labor-contracts-act?source=direct_link

The June Meeting reschedule is
6/17/26
5:30pm

Tonight's monthly meeting of the Owensboro Council of Labor will be postponed due to the National AFL-CIO Convention.
The reschedule date will be posted soon

Early voting is underway, and Election Day is around the corner. Remember, our communities are strongest when we show up.

Find your early voting and polling location here: https://elect.ky.gov/Voters/Pages/Polling-Locations.aspx

This is the week our Brothers and Sisters at NALC Branch 234 Merged will be participating in the NALC Branch 234 Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive.

Thank you in advance to the hardworking letter carriers in our region for making this drive possible and helping our local community!

University of Kentucky workers, labor leaders, and community allies marched this week to push back against plans to outsource campus jobs.

Read more about what’s at stake for public workers and the broader fight to protect good union jobs on campus: https://www.weku.org/lexington-richmond/2026-05-05/uk-campus-workers-labor-unions-hold-on-campus-rally-against-job-outsourcing

Our Monthly meeting has been moved to the Second Monday @5:30pm as a trial to drive more engagement.

Today is National Workers Memorial Day!

Today we remember those who lost their lives on the job, and remain diligent in our efforts to fight for safe working conditions for all workers!

At a time with great technology advances, when worker safety and working conditions should be at the forefront, unfortunately we have the lowest number of OSHA inspectors in its history.

For 55 years Unions and Allies have continued to fight to uphold and advance these workplace safety standards that were gained through relentless efforts and exposing the toll of work related deaths and injuries as they demanded our government take action!

Today as we Mourn those we have lost, let that not be in vain!

Let us take action on our job sites, in our state houses and in the halls of Congress to demand they Hold The Line for Safe Jobs Now and advance rather than cut the standards so many fought and sacrificed for.

All workers deserve to come home at the end of a day's work!

All workers deserve safety and security on the job!

No Job should cost a life!

We gathered this evening to remember those who lost their lives on the job and will continue to do so each year!

Here in the Commonwealth,
79 workers left for work and never returned home.
79 families forever changed.
79 reminders that behind every failure of safety, there is a human cost.

These risks are not behind us... they are still present, and still growing.

In Industries like Poultry, line speeds continue to increase, pushing workers beyond safe limits. Faster lines mean less time to work safely, more injuries, and greater strain on the
workers who make sure food is in our grocery stores daily. These are not accidents... they
are consequences of decisions that put production ahead of protections!

We cannot accept a system where oversight is weakened, enforcement is under-resourced,
and workers are left to bear the burden of those actions.
We must demand stronger protections. We must insist on real accountability, for meaningfulpenalties for those who violate safety laws.

We must protect workers who speak up. We must ensure that the agencies tasked with
keeping workers safe have the resources that they need.

We must continue to speak up on these issues,because every worker deserves dignity.
Every worker deserves safety, and every worker deserves to come home!

To paraphrase Mother Jones "We mourn for those we have lost but must continue to fight
like hell for the living!"

National Workers Memorial Day is April 28th! If you have the ability to attend one of these events in your region please do so!

Owensboro Council of Labor presents 27th annual workers memorial on courthouse lawn Labor leaders, elected officials and local workers gathered for the 27th annual Workers Memorial Day on the courthouse lawn Friday afternoon, hosted by the Owensboro Council of Labor.