ABOUT CLU

CLU combines the joint power of community-based organizations and labor unions to advance the interests of low and middle-income working families in Massachusetts. Our strategic campaigns promote quality jobs, secure healthcare, affordable housing, and climate justice.

We accomplish our mission through coalition building, research and policy development, public education and grassroots mobilization that move policies forward.

Our campaigns bring together low and moderate-income people already organized through existing community organizations and unions, who come together based on interest in the issues involved. We aim to develop new organizing opportunities for community organizations and labor. Through these campaigns, we hope to spur increased civic engagement. We also aim to educate the wider public through our research studies and through aggressive dissemination of the findings of these studies. Essentially we plan to develop a new “think and act tank” coming from poor and working people’s perspectives.

CLU is fortunate to be able to build upon the existing strength of a number of different organizations in Massachusetts. These groups are effectively organizing and winning important improvements and changes for their constituencies. We believe the sum of this different, individual work can, over time, add up to even more than its individual parts. Together, we can change the economic dialogue and economic reality in our region.

Community Labor United is an incorporated 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.