Links for Working Families

 Labor Links of Importance to Working Families

AFSCME Advantage Being an AFSCME member doesn’t only get you an advantage at the bargaining table – it also gets you bargains with AFSCME Advantage. Save on a large number of products and services.

AFSCME Leadership Academy As AFSCME members we can take online trainings, for free. These trainings sessions are one part of a new initiative called the AFSCME Leadership Academy (ALA). The classes are specially designed for AFSCME staff, officers and members like you.

No Sweat No Sweat Apparel, the 1st name in sweatshop free US union-made apparel now has the best prices for wholesale US union made T-shirts, sweats and caps of any distributor in the US & Canada.

Martin Luther King Jr. National Monument Help Build the Dream - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lost his life in Memphis, Tenn., where he had gone to support striking sanitation workers in their fight to get the city to recognize their union, AFSCME Local 1733. AFSCME  helped to raise the funds to build a memorial to him on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The groundbreaking occurred Nov. 13, 2006.

Wake-Up Walmart WalMart has become much more than just a small corner store in rural America. In the past several years, WalMart has grown into the largest retailer in the world - number 1 among the Fortune 500 - and is America's largest employer. WalMart is a giant company with giant responsibilities. First and foremost, WalMart has a responsibility to all Americans to set the standard for customers, workers and communities, and to help build a better America. The truth is that WalMart has let America down by lowering wages, forcing good paying American jobs overseas, and cutting costs with total disregard for the values that have made this nation great. WalMart has needlessly exploited illegal immigrants, faced the largest gender discrimination lawsuit in history, forced workers to work in an unsafe environment, and - incredibly - has broken child labor laws.

Union Review Union Review is an interactive publication of labor-related news and views. The Union Review mission is to provide an online venue to share labor related news and opinions. The primary goal includes creating a forum for both rank-and-file and non-union workers where they can openly speak out about their work, struggles, and ideas in an effort to build a stronger union movement.

Labour Start LabourStart is an online news service maintained by a global network of volunteers which aims to serve the international trade union movement by collecting and disseminating information, and by assisting unions in a variety of campaigns. Its features include daily labour news links in more than 20 languages and a news syndication service used by more than 700 trade union websites. News is collected from mainstream, trade union, and alternative news sources by a network of over 500 volunteer correspondents based on every continent.

Union Plus The Union Privilege Family - Our organization designs programs that help union members enjoy life at a great price. By using the collective buying power of unions, we are able to offer a variety of high quality, discounted products and services exclusively to working families. The AFL/CIO created Union Privilege in 1986 to provide union members and their families with valuable consumer benefits. With Union Plus benefits, your union membership "pays" at work and at home.