Michigan State AFL-CIO Community Services

State Labor Staff

The following Community Services representatives work to expand organized labor's knowledge and use of the community's health and human care services by:

• Recruiting and training union members, and others from the community who have an interest in helping those in need.
• Placing these volunteers on boards of directors, various committees and other positions within an agency in the community's health and welfare structure.
• Developing and presenting one-day programs on specific community issues, highlighting those issues that are of importance to the American labor movement.
• Providing information and referral services to those in need.
• Enhancing the complete development of the AFL-CIO community services programs by establishing community services committees in local unions, union counseling, programs, union cities.
• Providing technical assistance and consultation to local unions, United Way, and other agencies on community services activities.
• And, enhancing the relationship between the United Way, community agencies and organized labor.