External Links

The following are sites that may be of interest to you. Recent additions are at the top of each category. If you have a site that should be here, let us know.

Harvard Trade Union Program
The HTUP is one of the best labor education programs in the United States and serves the international trade union movement. It offers an annual 13-week program for international trade unions leaders at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. They also sponsor conferences and co-host a Labor Watch page with CLCR.

AFL-CIO
This is the umbrella organization of American labor unions and has extensive links to all American unions, international unions, and international trade secretariats.

Garment Industry Development Corporation
Extensive experience in industry modernization and worker training and education in the Garment Industry. Centered in New York, and provides assistance nationally.

International Labor Rights Fund
ILRF is a resource and action center on international labor rights and solidarity.

School for Workers
This is a long established center for advanced worker education located at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership
This is a training consortium of 35 or so unionized metal working firms in Milwaukee.

Working Partnerships USA
WP is linked with the Santa Clara County Central Labor Council in California. They are experienced in community economic development policy, community economic analysis, community organizing, and strategic planning related to labor.

National Association for Socially Responsible Organizations (NASRO)
NASRO is a co-operative for the new workplace. It provides service and advocacy for its growing membership of 30,000 self-employed workers that contract their services to other companies and individuals. A major service it provides is low-cost, high quality health insurance plans.

Working Today
Working Today is a not-for-profit organization organizing the self-employed to build their bargaining and lobbying power. Representing 60,000 members from more than 18 professional groups, WT members get discounted rates on health insurance, computer software, legal assistance, etc.

Center for Neighborhood Technology
CNT specializes in new approaches to promote sustainable development both in policy and applied technology.

Center for Policy Alternatives
CFPA tracks innovative state legislation on economic development and other subjects.

Centre for Community Enterprise
CCE is a clearing house and resource center for community development in Canada and offers a range of publications and other assistance.

Citizens for Tax Justice/Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
CTJ works to promote progressive, equitable tax systems.

The Corporation for Enterprise Development
Progressive, union-friendly economic development think tank. Developed comprehensive state economic development plans commissioned by Montana and Maryland state AFL-CIOs.

Council for Urban Economic Development
CUED is the leading organization for economic development professionals. Publications, research, training, and many hotlinks.

Economic Policy Institute
Labor-sponsored think tank analyzes economic and labor market issues, such as the impacts of increases in the minimum wage.

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
IATP is a resource center on not only Agriculture and Trade, but also International Human Rights and other related issues.

Regional Manufacturing Training Collaborative
RMTC is a collaborative of community-based training providers, a university-based consortium, and the City of Chicago Mayor's Office of Workforce Development (MOWD) addressing the training and development needs of the Chicago region's manufacturing industry. Its mission is to sustain the region as the United States manufacturing leader.

Ohio Employee Ownership Center
OEOC provides a broad range of services for employee owned companies and those who want to establish them.

Ownership Associates
OA specializes in helping companies become employee-owned, specializing in employee training and development.

Health and Income Equity
This site is a project of the International Health Program of the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, and the Health Alliance International, also in Seattle, WA. It is devoted to providing the background scientific evidence that demonstrates and seeks to explain the association between income inequality and health.

Rachel's Environment and Health Weekly Newsletter
This is a cutting-edge environmental newsletter put out weekly by the Environmental Research Foundation in Annapolis, MD. The editor is Peter Montague, a veteran social activist, environmentalist, and analyst. Subscriptions are free through e-mail. To subscribe, place the words SUBSCRIBE RACHEL-WEEKLY YOUR NAME in the message portion of the above linked e-mail.

The Policy Action Network
AP is a journal of the liberal imagination. The site also houses extensive linkages to progressive policy centers and networks.

Working Stiff
This site is dedicated to exploring working life and the general concerns of working people. It has ceased publication but articles are still available to view.