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Chicago Federation of Labor Community Services

The mission of the Community Services program is to improve the lives of workers and their families by:
• meeting their human and social service needs
• building broad and diverse coalitions to promote and protect dignity and justice for workers
• empowering workers and their unions to make their communities better, more responsive places to live, work and raise a family and retire

The Chicago Federation of Labor Community Service Program utilizes a two-pronged approach to effectively accomplish the objectives of its mission statement. Its aim is to help meet the health and human service needs of the CFL's affiliated membership and involve union volunteers to help them to help those in need.

The activities that serve to shape the core program include (but are not limited to):
• Union Counselor Program
• Assistance to the Unemployed
• Strike Assistance
• Information and Referral Services
• Establishing Community Services Committees in Local Unions
• Helping Union Retirees
• Disaster Relief
• Blood Donation by Union Members
• Fund Raising and Volunteer Recruitment for United Way

In addition, the Chicago Federation of Labor Community Services staff must respond in a timely and efficient manner when the CFL mobilizes campaigns around special issues and activities (i.e. organizing campaigns, legislative action, health care reform, workers' rights, educational campaigns, Labor in the Pulpits Program) that would help to achieve key federation objectives.

Chicago Federation of Labor Community Services
560 West Lake, 5th Floor
Chicago, IL 60661-1499
Telephone: 312-906-2435

Orlando Velez, Director, AFL-CIO Community Services
Kathleen Bernstein Harris, Director, Labor Participation
Ann Frison, Labor Liaison
Frank T. Sustersic, Labor Liaison
Ramon Bacerra, Labor Liaison