About Us

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The AFL-CIO Working for America Institute (WAI) is the workforce developement arm of the AFL-CIO.   WAI is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) national workforce intermediary organization.

WAI works with the AFL-CIO institutions (more than 400 state labor federations, local labor councils, and the Industrial Union Council) and unions, employers, workforce boards, community organizations, and apprenticeship officials to increase the effectiveness of economic developement and workforce systems, and to create, expand. and retain high quality jobs. 



Board of Trustees

Board President
Secretary-Treasurer
Secretary-Treasurer, NY State AFL-CIO

Leadership

Executive Director, AFL-CIO Technology Institute and Working for America Institute
Deputy Director, AFL-CIO Working for America Institute