Union and Labor Resources

This page contains useful resources for union members and others interested in the labor movement.

• National Labor College - http://www.georgemeany.org/
  A national center providing continuous labor education for all union activists.
• Labor Radio News -  http://www.laborradio.org/
  Listen to the voice of labor on the Workers Independent News Network
• U.S. Department of Labor - www.dol.gov/dol/library.htm  
  Research Library for US Department of Labor Statistics, Research and Publications.
• National Labor Relations Board - http://www.nlrb.gov/index.aspx
  The National Labor Relations Board is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1935 to administer the National Labor Relations Act, the primary law governing relations between unions and employers in the private sector.
• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics - http://www.bls.gov/
  US Department of Labor agency that maintains statistical information about the economy, population, demographics, unemployment, wages, staffing patterns.
• American Rights at Work - http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/
  American Rights at Work informs the American public about the struggle to win workplace democracy for nurses, cooks, computer programmers, retail cashiers, and a variety of workers who we all depend on every day.
• Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: Human Rights and Workers' Rights - http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/workers/
  American Rights at Work celebrates the legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt as a champion of workers' rights as human rights. The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project is a university-chartered research center associated with the Department of History of The George Washington University
• National Employment Law Project -  http://www.nelp.org/site/publications/ 
  View publication and content that promote policies and programs that create good jobs, strengthen upward mobility, enforce hard-won worker rights, and help unemployed workers regain their economic footing through improved benefits and services.
• AFL-CIO, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations - http://www.aflcio.org/
  The American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is the voluntary federation of America's unions, representing more than 9 million working women and men nationwide.
• Labor Heritage Foundation - http://www.laborheritage.org/
  The Labor Heritage Foundation (LHF) is a great place to find resources that will help you bring creativity to your union program and explain why union.  Its mission is to strengthen the labor movement through music and the arts, working with unions to provide resources ranging from labor music CDs, songbooks, posters, movies and books to singers and musicians to perform at picket lines, rallies and other union events.
• How to Unionize - http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~amatth13/
  This site includes strategies for organizing the workplace, information about basic labor law, and links to other union and labor web sites.
• Resources for Labor Union Organizing - http://www.union-organizing.com/
  Resources to provide help to U.S. Workers in their efforts at organizing themselves and their co-workers into labor unions. It is also a resource for Union Leaders to assist in their operations, organizing, and bargaining efforts.
• Five Basic Steps to Organizing a Union - http://www.ranknfile-ue.org/org_steps.html
  Here are some basic steps involved in winning a union voice on the job.