About Us
Welcome to the Labor Project for Working Families!
Working families face different kinds of crises every day:
An elderly parent is hospitalized and someone needs to take time off to care for her/him…
A child wakes up sick and one of the parents has to stay home…
Child care or after school care is too expensive and hard to find...
Flexible work hours would help balance home and work, but your manager is unsympathetic…
Work and family are no longer separate entities; each has a profound impact on the other. Unions are at the forefront of changing the workplace for working families. Unions help develop a family-friendly workplace culture that no longer assumes that the day-to-day responsibilities at home are taken care of by someone who isn’t a full-time worker. Work and family issues should be on every bargaining table, on every political action agenda, and part of every organizing drive.
The Labor Project for Working Families has resources for union members, negotiating teams, organizers, policy makers as well as community based organizations and activists on advocating for family friendly workplaces.
Use our resources. Tell us your success stories of training, negotiating or advocating for work family policies. And support our work. Your contribution helps sustain our efforts to advocate for working families.
In solidarity,
Labor Project for Working Families
