Mission Statement

The mission of the New Jersey State AFL-CIO is to improve the lives of working families, to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to the community and to unite all New Jersey local unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO to work together to accomplish this mission. We will build and change the American labor movement.

We will build a broad labor movement of workers by organizing workers into unions. We will create a broad understanding of the need to organize among our members, non-members, and members of the community. We will encourage all workers without regard to race, creed, color, sex, national origin, age, disability or sexual orientation to share equally in the full benefits of union organization.

We will build a strong political force for working families in New Jersey. We will encourage our members to register to vote, encourage them to run for public office, and obtain training at the New Jersey State AFL-CIO Labor Candidates School. We will establish a strong legislative agenda that will speak forcefully on issues that affect the lives of working families on all levels of government. We will promote, aid and encourage the sale of union-made products and union-supplied services through the use of the union label and other symbols. And we will promote labor’s print and broadcast media and other means of communication to further worker education and public and community awareness of the labor movement.

We will change the labor movement by creating a new voice in the community. We will work with our Central Labor Councils and Building Trades Councils to strengthen the ties of labor to our allies in the community and reach out to all workers at the local level to develop coalitions and more creative ways to speak out for all working families.

The New Jersey State AFL-CIO will act as the official spokesperson of the AFL-CIO on all civic, social, legislative, economic, and constitutional issues in the State of New Jersey and will safeguard the democratic character of the labor movement.

We dedicate ourselves to improving the lives of working families, bringing dignity and fairness to the workplace and securing social equity in the State of New Jersey and in the nation by being in conformance with the policies of the AFL-CIO.