Labor Leadership Initiative's work focuses on labor movement leadership development, strategy design and organizational change in unions, professional associations and other worker organizations.
Strengthening Leaders, Strengthening Communities
Our Labor Leadership Development work focuses on labor movement leadership development, strategy design and organizational change in unions, professional associations and other worker organizations.
Education and Training Offerings
- The New York State AFL-CIO/Cornell Union Leadership Institute, founded in 2001, prepares labor and worker-justice leaders to effectively and strategically advance workers' rights.
- The National Labor Leadership Institute is an intensive, year-long leadership development program designed for top-level national leaders in the labor movement and the broader movement for worker justice.
- The Solidarity Center, in collaboration with the Labor Leadership Initiative, launched the first Global Labor Leadership Institute. It was founded on the belief that connecting unions to global change is crucial.
The ULI program worked for me because it tapped into a relational aspect of organized labor that one sometimes has to tap back into. If you look down into the core of trade unionism, there is a deep relational understanding there. How would we build power for working people across industries without it? Somehow, along the way, over the years, organized labor has forgotten this point. The ULI program is trying to pull its participants back into that understanding in a real and grounded way. It’s a major honor to be a part of this community. It means that someone believes in you, maybe more than you believe in yourself. I see ULI being a key component in my personal coalition-building moving forward.
– Alvin Carter, Security Field Coordinator NYC, SEIU Local 32BJ
