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Labor Union
The California Labor Federation (CLF) is a labor union in California associated with the American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). The Federation includes more than 1,200 member unions which claim to represent over 2.1 million California workers.
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Government Agency
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor promotes individual rights and liberties of American citizens
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Other Group
The Labor Coalition for Community Action (LCCA) was founded in 2000 to be the umbrella organization for AFL-CIO constituency groups.
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Legislation
The Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) of 1959—known as the Landrum-Griffin Act after its sponsors, U.S. Reps. Phillip Landrum (D-Georgia) and Robert Griffin (R-Michigan)—is a piece of federal labor, transparency, and anti-corruption legislation targeting improper practices in labor-management relations. The Landrum-Griffin Act instituted a bill of rights for
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For-profit
Union Labor Life Insurance Company, Inc. (“Ullico”) is a union-owned company that provides health and life insurance and other insurance and investment products to members of more than 13 labor unions, including the Teamsters, the United Food and Commercial Workers, and the Laborers International Union of North
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Legislation
The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), sometimes called the Wagner Act after its chief sponsor, Sen. Robert F. Wagner (D-N.Y.), is the principal federal law governing the operation and organizing of labor unions in the private sector and their relations with management representatives. Enacted in 1935 as part of President
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Labor Union
The Union Label and Services Trade Department (ULSTD) of the AFL-CIO promotes products created by union members by producing and distributing union labels, shop cards, and store cards. ULSTD also distributes newsletters to AFL-CIO members recommending the purchase of union-made products, organizes boycotts against union opponents, and informs members
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Labor Union
The Transportation Trades Department (TTD) of the AFL-CIO is a coalition of 33 unions that advocate for unionized workers and labor unions’ institutional interests in the transportation industry. The TTD tends to support left-of-center economic goals, including increased labor regulations, increased infrastructure spending, opposition to privatization, and support for
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Labor Union
The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU) is a labor union that is a semi-autonomous division of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW). Its members come from various sectors, including retail, manufacturing, service, and health care industries throughout the United States and Canada.
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Labor Union
The Metal Trades Department, AFL-CIO is a labor union federation and arm of the AFL-CIO union federation that consists of 17 U.S.-based labor unions associated with metal-related industries such as ironworking, steel working, plumbing, and pipefitting. The department was founded in 1908 and operates a network of affiliated regional
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Labor Union
The Maritime Trades Department, AFL-CIO, is a department within the AFL-CIO labor federation that acts as an advocacy group and coalition of 23 national labor unions involved in maritime, trade, and port issues. The department acts as the AFL-CIO’s lobbying arm on those issues and supports left-leaning pro-union policies
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Labor Union
The Long Island Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO is a local labor federation and affiliate of the left-leaning AFL-CIO labor union federation. The organization claims to represent more than 250,000 workers who are members of affiliated local AFL-CIO labor unions. It supports a pro-union and broad left-leaning policy agenda at
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Labor Union
The Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) is a construction industry labor union and a member the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). LIUNA is has provided extensive campaign support and lobbying efforts on issues such as Obamacare, immigration, and infrastructure spending.
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Labor Union
The division does business as North America’s Building Trades Unions; for more information on the connections of the BCTD, see the NABTU profile. North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU), also known as the Building and Construction Trades Department (BCTD), is a department of the American Federation of
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Other Group
The American Association for Labor Legislation (AALL) was an early policy advocacy organization that promoted left-progressive employment legislation. Conceived in 1905, the AALL was a project of several economists whose stated goal was resolving labor conflicts without openly siding with either workers or managers. These economists shared a belief that
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For-profit
Labor Network for Sustainability (LNS) (also operating as Voices for a Sustainable Future) is a left-of-center network of labor organizations aligned in their support of left-progressive environmentalist policy. The organization has expressed its support for a left-wing climate change agenda, including the creation of a so-called Green New Deal.
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Non-profit
Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC) is an environmentalist advocacy group that coordinates projects to retrofit houses with energy-saving equipment across the United States and advocates for the expansion of federal environmental programs.
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Government Agency
Also see National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) (Legislation) The National Labor Relations Board is a federal government agency consisting of a five-member Board appointed by the President with (by convention) three members of the President’s party and two members of the opposition party and a nominally independent General Counsel
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Labor Union
The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) is a labor union and labor organizing group for farmworkers in Ohio, the Carolinas, and Mexico.1 The union conducts collective bargaining and secondary protests outside
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Labor Union
The American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is the largest federation of labor unions in the United States. Formed in 1955 in a merger between the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the AFL-CIO boasts membership of over 9 million voting members and 3
