# Liz Shuler **Liz Shuler** is president of the [[AFL-CIO]], the largest federation of American labor unions, and the first woman to hold the job. A former organizer and lobbyist for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, she was the federation's secretary-treasurer from 2009 until Richard Trumka's death in August 2021, when she succeeded him; she won a full term in June 2022. She was re-elected without opposition at the federation's June 2026 convention in Minneapolis, where she set a goal of 16 million union members and family members voting in the 2026 midterms, up from about 14 million in the last election. ## Connections - [[AFL-CIO]] · [[Labor Movement]] · [[AFGE]]