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Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Machinists Launch Training to End Workplace Violence and Harassment

… Here’s today’s story. … A group of Machinists (IAM) staff and officers recently  attended a “Be More Than a Bystander” training  at the IAM’s William W. Winpisinger Education and Technology Center in Maryland. These members are the first labor group in the country to receive training from the Ending Violence Association of British Columbia, which teaches participants how to recognize workplace …
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AFL-CIO Working for America Institute Receives $1 Million Grant to Train Workers for Manufacturing Jobs

… for the Biden–Harris administration’s investments in American manufacturing to achieve the greatest impact, workers need training and support to access and perform these highly skilled jobs—especially women and people of color who have not …
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Trumka Hails Power of Stewards at Air Line Pilots Association Training Conference

… AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka delivered the following remarks at the Air Line Pilots Association Leadership Training Conference:  Thank you, Brother Tim [Canoll]! Thank you for inviting me to this important gathering of a great, … really means lowering worker pay and making work more dangerous. Let me tell you, there will be no rollback of pilot training standards on my watch. Not a chance. Whoever thinks that’s going to happen will be in for a fight! As I said before, …
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Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Organizers Are Building a Movement to Meet the Moment at AFL-CIO Organizing Institute Trainings

… joined together this week in Las Vegas and St. Paul, Minnesota, at the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute (OI) Three-Day Training. The OI’s mission is to train union organizers to secure the kinds of huge wins that grow the labor movement and … necessary to help usher in a new era of labor organizing. Find more information about the OI and register your teams for training at  aflcio.org/oi . …

Labor Organizers Speak to the Quality and Value of Organizing Institute Trainings and Webinars
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Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Labor Activists Participate in Leadership Intensive Training

On March 24, 32 leaders and staff from state federations, area labor federations and central labor councils completed three and a half days of sessions with the Leadership Intensive (LI). They discussed ways to strengthen organizations, to engage in political and legislative campaigns, to serve immigrant workers, and more. AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler addressed the group—stressing innovation and boldness—and presented the pandemic-delayed 2021 cohort with their graduation certificates.
Legislative Alert

Letter Opposing Legislation that Would Underfund Worker Protections, Job Training, Public Health and Education

… (“LHHS”) Appropriations Act scheduled for Committee markup this week. Adequate funding for worker protections, job training, public health and education is essential to the well-being of all working families, but the allocations for FY 2025 … reduction in enforcement of job safety, minimum wage and overtime laws. The bill would reduce funding for Adult Job Training and Registered Apprenticeships and recklessly eliminate funding for Youth Job Training, the Women’s Bureau and the Bureau of International Labor Affairs. The bill would cut Title I Grants to local …
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Service + Solidarity Spotlight: NABTU Offers All Training Centers and Union Halls for National Vaccine Distribution

… Trades Unions (NABTU) President Sean McGarvey (IUPAT) issued a  statement  offering its more than 5,000 union halls and training centers for vaccine distribution across the country: “We know there is still more to be done, so we are now making …
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Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Black Training Leaders in the Bricklayers Discuss How to Support People of Color in Your Union

… tall and carries a deep and booming voice. A welding instructor at the John J. Flynn Bricklayers (BAC)/IMI International Training Center in Maryland, he admits that one of his biggest fears about becoming an instructor was how his students would … and uplifted. We need to make a point to lend one another a helping hand.”  Click here  to read more about what Black training leaders are doing to build a more diverse and inclusive union. …
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Organizing Institute Frequently Asked Questions

… … Can I change participant names? … What is the cost to participate? … Can I submit payment to the AFL-CIO after the training? … What if my union needs to cancel a participant? … What if I have withdrawn a participant from a particular training? Can I hold that spot for a future training? … OI Three-Day Trainings fill up very fast. Is there a waitlist? … Can I show up to a training without being …