The AFL-CIO Bonnie Ladin Union Skills (BLUS) Training Program offers weeklong intensive courses for union leaders, staff and activists that combine in-class instruction with discussions of real-world experiences shared by a diverse group of students. The main training areas include:
- Union administration;
- Collective bargaining (private and public sector);
- Organizing (internal and external);
- Arbitration and grievance handling;
- Communications and media; and
- Best financial practices.
BLUS courses are taught by a corps of experienced instructors, to help participants to better serve their union and community brothers and sisters. The BLUS experience brings rising union and community ally leaders together in a spirit of mutual development and camaraderie.
Read more at the AFL-CIO.
Related News
- WE Have the Power to Protect Jobs in Santa Cruz
- Help TD End Drones In Rail Yards
- Leave Rail Safety to Railroaders
- New CSX CEO, Steve Angel, Needs to Learn How to Railroad
- FRA Picked a Side. And It’s Not Railroaders or Rail Safety
- Senators Hawley and Coons Stopping Tier II Pick-Pockets
- Tentative Agreement Reached With CPKC
- Rail Safety Becomes Public Safety Real Quick
- A Bipartisan Push to Give Railroaders What We Have Earned
- When SMART Speaks, Washington Listens