Alliances With Faith-Based Groups

Outreach to the religious community permits union members who come as people of faith to speak at worship services about conditions of working people and how the union movement is working for change. Certainly this is another opportunity for APWU members to become involved, educate communities on our struggles, and develop alliances.

The National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice calls upon our religious values in order to educate, organize, and mobilize the religious community on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits, and working conditions for workers, especially low-wage workers.

Network of Local Interfaith Groups Concerned with Labor Issues [PDF]

10 Things You Can Do to Build Religion-Labor Partnerships [PDF]

The Labor in The Pulpits Program [PDF], “Speaking Out for Workers’ Freedom to Choose a Union,” provides resources on how to develop a relationship between the religious community and the union movement to work together. Although the program highlights Labor Day as a prime program date, presentation of the program remains timely year-round. This organizing and worship kit contains information to help plan a Labor Pulpits Program and provides tips for speakers and sample presentations.

More information about developing relationships with the religious community can be found through the AFL-CIO.

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