The AFL-CIO is a group of National Unions that have combined into a single entity in order to deal with problems facing labor groups throughout the entire nation and are headquartered in Washington D.C., the seat of our national government. They are, in turn, broken down organizationally into State and County organization who deal with problems on the local scene. They derive their financial support by per-capita assessment of moneys from the member organization who make up their being.

The AFL-CIO has a vast and efficient research staff who is busily engaged in the business of studying national labor, economic, social and political trends as they effect the working men and women of the nation. Their resource information is available to all member unions upon request and through publications that are dispensed periodically. The AFL-CIO also publishes a newspaper that is dispensed to all local member unions.