North Carolina’s Union Movement

Affiliate Education

The North Carolina State AFL-CIO works to help provide affiliated unions with the information and training they need or request. For example, each summer it hosts an extremely popular Labor School, a weeklong institute for affiliated local leadership and potential leadership designed to build skills and knowledge in areas from labor history to lobbying. The North Carolina State AFL-CIO also conducts periodic workshops on subjects such as labor law, workers’ compensation, organizing, and other issues, and also publishes periodic Local Union Updates that give a synopsis of news of interest or importance to those in the labor community in North Carolina.