CSA's "News You Can Use": LEARN Work/Family

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

The Labor Project for Working Families has launched LEARN WorkFamily, a free online labor education and resource network to help unions build a family friendly workplace culture. “In these tough economic times when our working families are making impossible choices between family caregiving and job security, it is more important than ever that unions lead the way to create family friendly workplaces,” says Gordon Pavy, Director of Collective Bargaining at the AFL-CIO. “LEARN WorkFamily is an essential resource for unions in these times.” LEARN WorkFamily “features the nation's only online database of contract language on work family issues such as family leave, childcare, elder care, flexible work options, adoption, bereavement leave and much more,” according to the Labor Project. LEARN WorkFamily visitors can search the online database for negotiated work family contract provisions on a wide variety of topics, get tips on bargaining for work family benefits, learn techniques to build a progressive and successful work family agenda, download resources and read and share stories about work family bargaining wins.