Websites for Union Activism

Interfaith Worker Justice

Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ) calls upon our religious values in order to educate, organize, and mobilize the religious community in the U.S. on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits, and working conditions for workers, especially low-wage workers.

Seminary Summer

Sponsored by the AFL-CIO and the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice, Seminary Summer involves 35-50 Muslim and rabbinical students, seminarians and other future religious leaders in a 10-week internship of faith and action.

Organizing Institute

The Organizing Institute is a selective program that includes classroom training, field training and job placement. New organizers assist workers who are forming unions in all sectors of the economy, including manufacturing, retail, agriculture, health care, and hospitality.

SEIU - Organizer in Training Program

If you want a career fighting for justice for working people, SEIU has openings for both experienced and entry-level organizers. Their Organizer-In-Training Program gives new organizers comprehensive training. Job qualifications include: excellent communication skills; good judgment; ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures; commitment to justice for working people; willingness to travel and work long and irregular hours.

Union Semester – CUNY, NYC

New York Union Semester is a unique opportunity to learn about organized labor in a challenging environment. Through the field internship, students will become part of a union's staff for a semester while they study at City Univerisity New York.

Corporate Research Summer School - Cornell University

CORNELL ILR and the AFL-CIO offer their Strategic for undergraduate and graduate students interested in careers in the labor movement. The week long program, which usually held in June on the Cornell campus in Ithaca, NY, is designed to provide students with the tools to pose and answer basic questions on the operations, structure, and industrial relations strategies of corporate America.

Union Internship Opportunities

Below are some intership opportunities of interest to Labor Studies majors and others. Note that many spring application deadlines are April 15th.

AFL-CIO Public Policy Department
AFL-CIO Organizing Institute (described above)
AFL-CIO American Center for international Labor Solidarity
AFL-CIO Union Summer (described above)
AFL-CIO Food and Allied Service Trades
American Federation of Teachers
DART Organizers Institute --The Direct Action & Research Training (DART) Network is a national network of grassroots, metropolitan, congregation-based, community organizations spread throughout the United States. They offer 4-month paid field experiences.
International Labor Communications Association
Steelworkers' Summer
United Auto Workers -- positions include in the Public Relations, Research, Social Security, and Law Departments
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 951 -- a state-wide local in Michigan
UNITEHERE
UNITEHERE Internship - Culinary Workers Union Local 226, Las Vegas, NV

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