Los Angeles County Federation of Labor

The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor was started in 1885. Originally, the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor was split into five individual unions of bakers, cigar makers, printers, tailors, and carpenters. Now they represent over 300 unions, about 800,000 people, throughout Los Angeles County, making it the second largest in the country. “A survey published in December 2003 showed that the three largest unions in the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor were SEIU 434B (with seventy-four thousand homecare and nursing home workers), SEIU 399 with forty-five thousand health care and other employees, and the United Teachers of Los Angeles (with thirty thousand teachers from the American Federation and the National Education Association).” They have helped make Los Angeles a union city. Their mission is to “ promote a voice for workers through organizing themselves into unions, building strong coalitions of labor, community, faith, and responsible businesses, engaging in both organizing and political campaigns, electing pro-union and pro-worker candidates and advancing public policies that support workers, families and local communities.” They also encourage people to help make change by voting. The Los Angeles County Federation of labor is a major focal point for new American labor movement. Recently, the impressive progression of Los Angeles becoming a union city has become a stand out model for other non-union cities because of Los Angeles’ anti-union history. Los Angeles combines the economic development activism and the refined political work of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor.

The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor has three hundred and forty-five affiliates representing its over eight hundred thousand members. This membership has grown at a staggering rate just in 1934 membership totaled 70,000 now there are over 800,000 members. The largest of its union workers groups is the 75,000 homecare and nursing home workers they alone now comprise a larger amount of workers than the entire Los Angeles County Federation of Labor of 1934. Second only the homecare and nursing works is the 45,000 county workers that belong to SEIU. LA County Federation of Labor of Labor also represents over 30,000 teachers along with 28,00 members working in the film and television industry. The Executive Board of the LA County Federation of Labor’s Executive Board consists of thirty-five members that are appointed to key union leadership roles. The LA County Federation of Labor also has a committee that deals with political Education called COPE with ninety-five voting associates and more than thirteen thousand representatives that can participate in its monthly delegates meetings.

The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor has an executive board that consists of thirty-five members. There is a Committee on Political Education (C.O.P.E.) that has ninety-five voting member. C.O.P.E. also has 1300 delegates to participate in its monthly delegates meetings.

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