Executive Council Statement
Support of America's Credit Unions
… Court has overturned a 1982 federal government policy that provided employees of small businesses and organizations access to credit union membership by allowing credit unions to include multiple groups in their fields of membership; and Whereas , approximately 144,000 small groups of employees have … access to affordable credit union financial services; and Whereas , the AFL-CIO believes that American consumers have the right to choose to entrust their families’ financial business to a credit union; and Whereas , according to the Consumer …