Emily Mendenhall, an AFL-CIO Union Summer intern in New Orleans, reports the interns there joined a home rebuilding project in Chalmette, La.
The New Orleans Union Summer team volunteered to spend a day last week joining the St. Bernard Project in rebuilding a house in Chalmette, La., just outside New Orleans.
AFL-CIO Union Summer interns learned what labor solidarity is all about recently when they joined the Portland (Ore.) Day of Rising sponsored by Jobs with Justice. In a series of seven actions in one day, nearly 200 people traveled across Portland to lend support to workers embroiled in contract disputes and to speak out on trade issues.
The next generation of union organizers and activists take to the streets this week as some 45 AFL-CIO Union Summer 2011 interns begin a 10-week educational internship. The interns spent one week at the AFL-CIO for orientation before fanning out to work with local central labor councils and local unions in eight cities on organizing, research and community outreach projects.
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