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AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS
(AFL-CIO)
Office of the General Counsel
Washington, DC
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a voluntary federation of 68 national and international labor unions. Today's unions represent 13 million working women and men of every race and ethnicity and from every walk of life. We are teachers and teamsters, musicians and miners, firefighters and farm workers, bakers and bottlers, doctors and nurses, carpenters and laborers -- and more. In the AFL-CIO, workers and unions find the opportunity to combine strength and to work together to improve the lives of America's working families, bring fairness and dignity to the workplace and secure social and economic equity in our nation. The AFL-CIO and member unions are dedicated to four interconnecting goals critical to achieving that mission: strengthening working families by enabling more workers to join together in unions; building a stronger political voice for working families; providing new voice for workers in the global economy; and creating a more effective voice for working families in our communities. To further these goals, the Office of the General Counsel provides advice and guidance to AFL-CIO officers, staff and affiliated unions on a host of legal and programmatic issues. The Office is also active in appellate litigation before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Federal Courts of Appeal, the NLRB and other tribunals on issues of importance to union members and workers generally. The Peggy Browning Fund summer intern will perform legal research and writing on a variety of issues, including those arising under the NLRA, FLSA, Title VII and OSHA. The summer intern will also assist with various legislative, regulatory and public policy matters. Applicants should possess excellent research, writing and oral communication skills, and have a demonstrated commitment to the labor movement and to issues affecting working families. The AFL-CIO will provide additional compensation to the Peggy Browning Fund Intern, for a total ten-week stipend of $6,000. Students interested in applying to the AFL-CIO for a Peggy Browning Fund internship should submit an application package to:
Jonathan P. Hiatt
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