Executive Council Statement
Union Cities: Building Communities That Respect Work and Strengthen Families
… international and national union affiliates, state federations and local labor councils, embarked on an ambitious program to strengthen the American union movement in 1997. Union Cities challenged local labor movements to rally around a common agenda of supporting organizing, taking grassroots political action, building community-labor … and local unions. Central labor councils on the road to Union Cities have now created high standards for which their work can be evaluated by the Executive Council and that serve as an example for local union communities. These standards …