Humane Habitats: IBEW, San Diego Building Trades Support Affordable Housing


Boots on the Ground, a program by the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance, assists in major volunteer efforts to restore wilderness areas.

The AFT partners with First Book to distribute new books to children to help reduce the achievement gap.

Members of United Steelworkers Local 6996 volunteer to run a food pantry in Reading, Pa., utilized by hundreds of residents.
A community-labor partnership in Louisville recruits local residents for an intensive construction training curriculum and changes lives.
The Writers Guild of America, East, holds workshops for military members and caregivers to help them tell their stories.
Domestic Workers United is working with a broad coalition of community partners to help domestic workers organize.

Guide Dogs of America changes lives—thanks to the Machinists and, of course, some dedicated pooches.
Union members in Iowa turned the familiar Salvation Army red kettle into something pretty big: a five-and-a-half-foot-tall replica.
Talented and hardworking union members work to repair and rebuild the storm-ravaged areas from Superstorm Sandy.
Union attorneys around the country volunteer to help ensure all voters can exercise their fundamental American right.
Firefighters across the country raise funds for breast cancer research and promote awareness.
The Workers Defense Project improves workplace conditions and is a fresh model for labor and community collaboration.
Through the Bring Jobs Home campaign, union members are joining with community partners like small business owners to help create family-supporting jobs and return offshored jobs back to this nation.

IBEW Local 11 mentoring prepares aspiring electricians for great careers.
CWA union members have raised nearly $7 million for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
Outraged over S.B. 1070, a community partnership blossomed in the Arizona desert with the goal to register 40,000 new voters.

Alaska Public Employees Association and the Anchorage School District team up so graduation coaches can impact young lives.
The Crawford/Richland County Central Labor Council leads a fundraising charge for an Ohio wetlands lab.
Letter Carriers give back through food drives and other community events, and are the eyes and ears of the neighborhood.

Actress Octavia Spencer reads to fifth-grade students at a SAG Foundation BookPals event.

AFT is part of an exciting public-private partnership to improve educational, social and economic support for McDowell County, W.Va.