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Above: President Saundra Williams, National AFL-CIO Staff person, Sister Brenda Moon join Walmart employees in Windsor, Ontario for a rally. They were there to support Walmart workers who had voted to become UFCW members, after Walmart abruptly closed the store.

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AFL-CIO CENTRAL LABOR COUNCILS

A Voice for Working Families in Communities, Building Political Power for Working Families

Advancing a Progressive Local Legislative Agenda

Supporting Contracts and Organizing Campaigns

and Workers’ Freedom to Form Unions, Mobilizing and Solidarity

What are central labor councils?

AFL-CIO central labor councils bring different unions together in communities to work collectively on organizing new members, educating and mobilizing current members, strengthening cities and counties and creating a powerful voice for working families.   CLC’s comprise the grassroots network of the labor movement’s efforts to ensure that economic, education, health care, and other policies benefit working families.

What do they do?

Central labor councils give working families a voice:

• On the job. Working together in CLC’s, local unions support one another’s organizing campaigns and contract bargaining.

With “Street Heat” rapid-response teams, CLC’s turn out large groups of working people to support union members and challenge anti-union, anti-worker employers. CLC’s forge community alliances that build support for union members’ efforts to win positive changes on the job and retain past gains.

• In local and state politics. CLC’s endorse candidates for local office, make recommendations on state legislative endorsements

and coordinate the local union movement’s political mobilization efforts, including voter registration, worksite leafleting and neighborhood canvassing.

• In local and state government. CLC’s provide working families with the information and opportunities they need to make their

voices heard by local elected leaders and state legislators. CLC’s engage union members in developing and promoting a working families agenda for good, secure jobs, job safety, adequate investments in such working family needs as education, health care, and retirement security, and against job-killing proposals like privatization of government services.

• In their communities. An extensive network of community services staffers and volunteers works through CLC’s to help union

members in need of emergency assistance during family crises and natural disasters, plant closings and economic hardships. CLC’s strengthen communities in additional ways by linking labor with community and religious groups to tackle shared concerns by supporting high-road economic developments that create good-paying jobs and ensure the local revenue base for essential services such as education.

METRO DETROIT AFL-CIO COMMUNITY SERVICES

Saundra Williams, President of Metro Detroit AFL-CIO and Dave Ivers, Secretary-Treasurer assisted community services volunteers in donating more than 500 bags filled with toiletries.  These bags went to shelters throughout the Metro Detroit areas.   Union members donated trial toiletries such as lotions, shampoos, conditioners, toothpaste, toothbrushes and deodorants.