RochesterLabor.org

EDUCATING TO ORGANIZE!

RochesterLabor is the website of the labor education programs of the Rochester Labor Council, AFL-CIO, sponsored by the Council and the Ronald G. Pettengill Labor Education Fund. These programs include:

• Production and display of educational materials ranging from labor history to work-related instructional materials such as:
• Rochester Labor History eMAP is an on-line resource on Rochester workers and their unions, showing in both text and image where they worked, held their meetings, conducted their struggles, and were commemorated.
• Our Community of Workers Coloring Book with 31 drawings, introduces young people to workers doing a wide range of jobs described in accompanying captions.
• A companion workbook to the Coloring Book, with work-related exercises for students from pre-kindergarten to middle school.
• Struggle in Smugtown video documentary and
• Struggle in Smugtown Teachers' Study Guide
• Rochester: A Community of Workers on-line photo exhibit
• The 1946 General Strike of Rochester, New York — an on-line essay illustrated with images from an AFL photographer
• Web version of Rochester CLC Labor History publication
• Planning and conducting educational events and programs including the Labor Day Parade, the annual Labor Film Series at the George Eastman House, the ongoing Labor Lyceum and such special events as conferences, workshops, and concerts.
• Dissemination of information, including a labor education calendar and union products and services listings.