The Label Letter is the official newsletter of the Union Label & Service Trades Department, AFL-CIO. It is published bimonthly and includes the Do Buy and official AFL-CIO Boycott Lists. Subscriptions are available to members only. With the exception of copyrighted material, permission to reprint is hereby granted, but credit to the source is appreciated.
Buffalo Home to Another Groundbreaking Union Campaign
In February, workers at a Tesla factory in Buffalo, NY, announced a campaign to form a union, saying they want better pay and benefits. Buffalo, if you recall, is the home of the first successful Starbucks union campaign that ultimately opened the flood gates for...
Voluntarism has a Union Label
The Labor Movement, the acknowledged champion of the middle class, indeed according to many its creator, has always been devoted to the economic improvement of the lives of its members and the public at large. Public employees among them teachers, police,...
Labor and Large Charities
## AFL-CIO & The United Way For over 80 years, Labor has partnered with the United Way. Just after World War II, the United Way (then Community Chests and Councils) and the AFL-CIO worked together to create a mechanism for payroll deduction that helped build the...
Protected: Special Focus: Unions Give Back
Special Focus: Unions Give Back
Building better communities is part of the fabric of America’s labor unions, whether it be through organizing workplaces for better wages, benefits, and working conditions or by giving back to others around them. As far back as the 1800s, unions were involved in...
