AFL-CIO

The largest federation of unions in the U.S.: pro-collective-bargaining, pro-$15-minimum-wage, pro-PRO Act, pro-trade-with-labor-standards, pro-immigration with worker protections, pro-Medicare-for-All or robust public option, pro-prescription-drug-price-negotiation. Paxton is anti-union to the core: opposed federal overtime rules, sued over NLRB rulings, backed right-to-work expansion. Almost zero overlap. Talarico hits nearly every AFL-CIO plank: $15 minimum wage, paid family leave, Medicare buy-in, prescription-drug negotiation, AI worker protections, antitrust expansion against corporate landlords. He drops one point because the AFL-CIO has internal splits on some of his cultural positions and on full-marijuana-legalization implications for workplace drug-testing.