Commentary AFL-CIO: California Poised to Make History for Working People by Press on March 29, 2016 Press Author More in Commentary: Heteronormativity: Grappling with Straight Privilege March 24, 2026 Former Park Forest Mayor Ostenburg Implores Chicago Cardinal Cupich to Care for St. Irenaeus Property December 16, 2025 An Angel Now Guards Our Friends in Blue: Park Forest Mourns the Loss of #204, Detective Tim Jones December 4, 2025 Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 29, 2016. Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the California State Legislature introduction of a bill that would raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour: