| Greater Green Bay Labor Council |
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| Missions and Goals of the AFL-CIO |
- The mission of the AFL-CIO, State Federation and Central Labor Councils are to improve the lives of working families - to
bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation. To accomplish this mission we will build and
change the American labor movement.
We will build a broad movement of American workers by organizing workers into unions. We will recruit and
train the next generation of organizers, mass the resources needed to organize and create the strategies to win organizing
campaigns and union contracts. We will create a broad understanding for the need to organize among our members, our
leadership and among unorganized workers. We will lead the labor movement in these efforts.
We will build a political voice for workers in our nation. We will fight for an agenda for working families at all levels
of government. We will empower state federations and central labor councils. We will build a broad progressive coalition
that speaks for social and economic justice. We will create a political force within the labor movement that will empower
workers and speak forcefully on the public issues that affect our lives.
We will change our unions to provide a new voice to workers in a changing economy. We will speak for
working people in the global economy, in the industries in which we are employed, in the firms where we work, on the job
everyday. We will transform the role of the union from an organization that focuses on a member's contract to one that
gives workers a say in all decisions that affect our working lives - from capital investments, to the quality of or products and
services, to how we organize our work.
We will change our labor movement by creating a new voice for workers in our communities. We will make the
voices of working families heard across the nation and in our neighborhoods. We will create vibrant state federations and
community labor councils that reach out to workers at the local level. We will strengthen the ties of labor to our allies. We
will speak out in effective and creative ways on behalf of all working Americans.