AFL-CIO Creates Partnership With Student Organization

As part of its new initiative to court younger affiliates and expand its membership, the AFL-CIO has entered into a National Partnership Agreement with the United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), touted as "the nation's largest youth-led campaign organization dedicated to building a student-labor movement, with affiliated locals on over 150 campuses that run locally and nationally-coordinated campaigns for corporate accountability and economic justice in partnership with organizations of workers."

During the AFL-CIO's annual convention held earlier this month, the organization's delegates adopted a constitutional amendment that opens up the organizations' General Board to include young workers, and discussed ways to get younger members more involved in the labor movement. To this end, the new partnership with the USAS seeks to achieve the following goals: