The AFL-CIO's constituency groups are a bridge to diverse communities, creating and strengthening partnerships to enhance the standard of living for all workers and their families. The groups also promote the full participation of minorities in the union movement and ensure unions hear and respond to the concerns of the communities they represent.
Today, these constituency groups are investing new energy to support workers' efforts to join unions to improve their lives, drawing upon close ties in local communities to rally support for workplace justice. They have developed a common agenda focusing on six areas of mutual concern: promoting organizing and the freedom of workers to choose a union, encouraging women and minorities to participate in the political process, fighting discrimination, defending immigrant rights, building Union Cities and protecting retirement security.
