Toolkit: Working with Labor: Best Practices for the Long Haul

Best Practices - cont.

Be generous in accepting responsibility and sharing credit
Be prepared to sustain a long-term commitment in specific communities, and around
specific issues
Do internal organizing and education around coalition work, so that the leadership brings the membership along, and broadens everyone’s agendas in substantive ways for the long haul

Beyond achieving some short-term objectives, your efforts to expand the relationships for change will continue to reap rewards - for you, your organization and the larger community. This isn’t the last word, it’s only the beginning.

Among the people consulted for this section were Cathy Howell, deputy director of the AFL-CIO Southern Region; Bill Fletcher, Jr., president of TransAfrica; and Janice Fine, senior fellow on policy and organizing at the Economic Policy Institute. All have spent years working both in community organizations and with the labor movement.

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