Links

UMass Labor Centers

  • UMass Amherst Labor Center

    UMass Amherst offers a unique multi-disciplinary program that combines coursework and an internship toward an M.S. degree in Labor Studies.

  • UMass Boston Labor Resource Center

    The Labor Resource Center (LRC) provides educational and research programs to workers and to labor and community organizations.The LRC is part of the College of Public and Community Service (CPCS) at UMass Boston. It offers a Labor Studies major (BA), minor, and certificate program.

  • UMass Dartmouth Dubin Labor Education Center

    The Labor Education Center is an outreach program of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. In addition to our popular classes held in the Fall and Spring, we provide one-day conferences and workshops on many topics. Credit courses in Labor Studies are offered through day and evening sessions. We will also design programs to meet the specific needs of local unions, labor councils or workers. In addition, the Center offers an extensive Workers Education Program with classes covering English for Speakers of Other Languages, high school equivalency preparation, Citizenship classes, and Adult Basic Skills instruction--at the worksite, the Neighborhood College, and other convenient meeting halls.

  • UMass Lowell Labor Extension Program

    The UMass Lowell Labor Extension Program offers customized training and education programs for local unions and Labor Councils as well as a wide variety of open enrollment classes, conferences and seminars.

Union Related

  • AFL-CIO

    This federation includes most US unions. Links to individual affiliated unions can be found on the AFL-CIO website.

  • Change to Win

    This federation is made up of 4 unions: the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the Service Employees International Union, the United Food and Commercial Workers, and the United Farmworkers.

  • Massachusetts AFL-CIO

    Formed in 1887 as the Massachusetts branch of the American Federation of Labor, and later chartered by the national AFL-CIO in 1958, the Massachusetts AFL-CIO is a union of unions, dedicated to achieving a better quality of life for working families in our commonwealth.

    Today, we are the state’s largest labor umbrella organization, representing more than 750 local unions and intermediate bodies, such as joint boards and district councils. We are one of 51 state charters of our parent organization, the national American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO).

  • International Labour Organization

    The ILO is the international organization responsible for drawing up and overseeing international labour standards. It is the only 'tripartite' United Nations agency that brings together representatives of governments, employers and workers to jointly shape policies and programmes promoting Decent Work for all.

  • National Education Association

    The NEA is an independent union with 3.2 million members.

Government

Other Workers Organizations

  • MassCOSH

    MassCOSH brings together workers and allies to organize and advocate for safe, secure jobs and healthy communities throughout eastern Massachusetts. Through training, technical assistance and building community/labor alliances, we mobilize our members and develops leaders in the movement to end unsafe work conditions.

  • Communty Labor United

    CLU combines the joint power of community-based organizations and labor unions to advance the interests of low and middle-income working families in Massachusetts.

  • Mass. Jobs with Justice

    Massachusetts Jobs With Justice is a coalition of community, faith and labor groups in Massachusetts who work to protect and promote workers' rights, along with our sister coalition, Western Mass Jobs With Justice.

  • Brazilian Immigrant Center

    Founded in Boston by immigrant workers in 1995, the Brazilian Immigrant Center has always functioned as a worker’s center, designed to support and defend workers’ rights under current Massachusetts and US labor laws.

  • Chinese Progressive Association Workers Center

    The Workers Center combines workers' rights education, leadership development, and support for collective action to develop the roles of immigrant workers as leaders in their workplaces, in CPA, and in the community.  The goal of the Workers Center is to help Chinese workers learn about and organize for our rights, and to develop solidarity with workers of different communities and nationalities.

  • Metrowest Worker Center

    Non-profit, community-based organization whose mission is to improve the well-being of immigrant workers in the region through organizing, education, service, and leadership development.

Labor Education

  • Women's Institute for Leadership Development - WILD

    The Women's Institute for Leadership Development works to strengthen the number, influence and diversity of women at all levels of leadership in the Massachusetts labor movement and beyond. We provide education, training and support to help women become ever more effective organizers and leaders: in their unions and the labor movement as a whole; in the political arena and within their communities.

  • The Labor Guild

    The Guild's School of Labor Management Relations is the oldest continuing adult education program in New England.  A nuts and bolts practical education on the ever-changing world of labor-management relations. The Faculty is largely drawn from successful labor lawyers, union and management practitioners, arbitrators, federal and state agency staff, academics and social media specialists in the greater Boston metro area.

  • United Association for Labor Education

    An association of union, university and community based labor educators, based in the US but including members and institutions in several other countries. Affiliates range from degree-granting university labor studies programs to union education departments to independent non-profits.

  • International Federation of Worker Education Associations

    IFWEA is the international organisation responsible for the development of workers' education. It brings together national and international trade unions, workers' education associations, NGOs and foundations engaged in the provision of adult education opportunities for workers and the communities in which they live throughout the world.