# Liz Shuler

President, AFL-CIO. TIME100 AI 2026, Shapers. She leads the AFL-CIO's 15 million workers, and its AI partnership with Microsoft includes a promise not to fight unionizing. ([americamagazine.org](https://www.americamagazine.org/vatican-dispatch/2026/09/17/magnifica-humanitas-afl-cio-interview-labor-union/))

- Born: 1970, Gladstone, Oregon, U.S. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Shuler))
- Education: BA, Journalism, University of Oregon, 1992 ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Shuler))
- Career: AFL-CIO (President, 2009 to now); IBEW (Executive Assistant to the President, 1993–2009) ([aflcio.org](https://aflcio.org/about/leadership/liz-shuler), [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Shuler))
- TIME profile: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/liz-shuler/
- Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/liz-shuler

- Grew up in a union household; her father was a power lineman, and she worked summers at the same utility, Portland General Electric, during college. ([aflcio.org](https://aflcio.org/about/leadership/liz-shuler))
- Her first job out of college was organizing clerical workers for an electrical workers' union local in Oregon. ([aflcio.org](https://aflcio.org/about/leadership/liz-shuler))
- As a young union lobbyist she helped a coalition beat Enron's push to deregulate electricity through the Oregon Legislature. ([aflcio.org](https://aflcio.org/about/leadership/liz-shuler))
- Is the first woman to lead the AFL-CIO, America's main labor federation. ([aflcio.org](https://aflcio.org/about/leadership/liz-shuler))
- Set a goal in 2022 of organizing 1 million new workers in a decade; she says unions hit it in three years. ([aflcio.org](https://aflcio.org/2026/6/15/unions-change-lives-working-people-weekly-list))
- Her 2023 deal with Microsoft includes a neutrality pledge: the company does not fight workers who try to unionize. ([americamagazine.org](https://www.americamagazine.org/vatican-dispatch/2026/09/17/magnifica-humanitas-afl-cio-interview-labor-union/))