Union Counseling is conducted nationwide under the auspices of AFL-CIO state federations and central labor councils and in cooperation with United Ways. Union Counseling has been an effective social outreach program for organized labor for over half a century. Retirement Seminars are held for people planning to retire or who have recently done so. Participants discuss how to cope with their new way of life by exploring such topics as financial planning, consumer information, leisure activities and housing arrangements. Participants learn about volunteer opportunities that allow them to make good use of their skills, including serving on volunteer boards and committees of health and human-care service organizations.
Participants learn how to access available resources.
May. The drive stocks local community food banks, pantries and shelters with non-perishables Letter Carriers collect from customers along their mail routes. United Way became a partner in 1994. The number of participating branches and pounds of food collected each year continues to increase. A basic principle of the AFL-CIO Community Services Program is that the union member is, first and foremost, a citizen of the community who cooperates with other citizens in making the community a good place in which to live, to work, to raise children and to retire. The union member is concerned about the availability of adequate health and human-care services for the entire community.