Labor Education Project On AFL-CIO International Operations

(LEPAIO)

Who we are and what we do

with workers of the world!

Examples of our work. (Will change as needed.)

Why Is The AFL-CIO Taking $71 Million From Trump & The Republicans? The Elephant In The Room?

We labor activists and militants need to fight for the AFL-CIO and our national unions to break relations with the US government and stop taking funding from the US government. We also need to demand that AFL-CIO top level leadership open the books of the AFL-CIO and detail all their continuing international operations. We need to build international labor solidarity with workers around the world, not to sabotage workers struggles ...

Open Letter To Labor Notes About Relationship To US NED Funded AFL-CIO “Solidarity Center” In Mexico & US

As I explain in my presentation, I’ve been active with the U.S. solidarity efforts since 2019 with organizers associated with the Latino Workers Leadership Institute and the Autoworker Caravan and, more recently, with Labor Notes and the Mexico Solidarity Project. It’s as part of the latter engagement (with some great trade unionists), that I became aware that the AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center was playing a pivotal role. While workers can be grateful for any support in their struggles against the transnationals, the SC’s involvement brings into question its role in the international working-class movement against U.S. world domination ...

Newly Revealed Documents Show How the AFL-CIO Aided US Interference in Venezuela *

The AFL-CIO’s Solidarity Center has a long history of working hand in glove with the US government in undermining democracy and left labor movements throughout the world. The center emphasizes it has shifted away from these Cold War tactics in recent years. But newly obtained documents show that the Solidarity Center has worked closely with the US to undermine the Venezuelan government in the recent past. President Hugo Chávez addresses his supporters during a massive rally called as a show of strength to counter an opposition-led strike that has battered the nation's oil industry, on December 7, 2002 in Caracas, ...

AFL-CIO’s Dark Past

When the Marshall Plan folded in 1950, the Central Intelligence Agency, established in 1947, was there to continue funding Brown’s secret operations on an even grander scale. The CIA turned over tens of millions to the FTUC, because the spy agency found Brown’s covert operations useful. Neither the CIA nor the FTUC were obliged to report these undercover financial transactions ...