Northwestern Pennsylvania Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO

The Northwest Pennsylvania Area Labor Federation is an AFL-CIO affilated organization that represents 10 Central Labor Councils with a combined memberships of 39,639 members of 212 unions in Pennsylvania.

The mission of the Northwest Pennsylvania Area Labor Federation is to improve the lives of working families—to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our state and the nation. To accomplish this mission, we work to:

· Build a broad movement of Pennsylvania workers by helping workers join and form unions.

· Support Pennsylvania workers as they bargain with employers to improve their living conditions and workplaces, as well as their communities, state and nation.

· Strengthen the voice of Pennsylvania working families at all levels of government and in a changing global economy.

The Northwest Pennsylvania Area Labor Federation is a key part of the nation's largest and strongest labor federation—the AFL-CIO, which unites 10.5 million working women and men of every race and ethnicity and from every walk of life.

2020 Labor Day Parade Montage

NWPA ALF Labor Day Video Montage -Virtual Labor Day Parade

The NWPA Area Labor Federation is proud of its tradition of holding a Labor Day Parade in Erie, every year since 2015. We were determined to continue that tradition in spite of this pandemic.

NWPA ALF 2020 Flag Day ZOOM Webinar

Flag Day Video originally created via Webinar

This video was created from the NWPA ALF FLAG DAY ZOOM webinar.

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Life and Legacy of Father John (Jack) O'Malley 1936-2020

rosann.barker on Thursday, September 17 - 1:43pm

Beaver-Lawrence Leads the way for "Mercer County Labor Solidarity Days"

rosann.barker on Wednesday, September 2 - 10:38pm

The Beaver-Lawrence CLC is again the first to step up and lead the way! We sent out a plea for a show of support and Solidarity for the members of USW 1016 who are on strike at NLMK in Farrell, PA. and voila, they planned a

20 FREE APPS for the Pre-Teens and Teens

rosann.barker on Wednesday, August 19 - 9:42pm

The Builders Guild of Western PA is a unique labor/management initiative launched by the building and construction trade unions of western Pennsylvania and local professional contractor associations to promote quality construction, provide a forum for labor and management to work together on the issue... They have created 20 Apps we hope your children and young adults will use: it gives them the opportunity to play games and learn the skills of our unionized building trades workers.

FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS....

rosann.barker on Wednesday, August 19 - 10:09am

For more than 50 years, he served as a delegate, representative, and union activist in our area. His years of wear and tear and stress on his body from decades of running, hours tolling in his garden, and a tremendous amount of time as an activist in the labor movement first at his local and then in the broader labor movement, took a toll on his body but not his passion, spirit or determination to continue his work until a fitting leader could be cultivated and gain the experience needed to take his place.

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