AFL-CIO Union Summer Offers a Progressive Internship Option
Are you—or do you know—a college student or recent grad with an activist streak who wants to do something a bit more significant this summer than a beach trip, beer bash or burger flipping?
Check out the AFL-CIO Union Summer program, started in 1996 to provide students an opportunity to work for social and economic justice through workplace and community organizing. Since 1996, nearly 3,000 young men and women have taken part in this unique baptism of union activism and many continue to work for justice as union organizers and community activists.
Union Summer is accepting applications through May 4 for the 10-week program that includes a week of intensive orientation and training and nine weeks in the field. The program is open to current college juniors and seniors, plus recent graduates. (Apply online here.)
Union Summer participants will receive a $300-a-week stipend, plus housing and local transportation costs at the Union Summer site to which they are assigned. Participants are responsible for transportation costs to and from the training and orientation.
The 2007 sites have not been determined but should be set by the end of May. Efforts will be made to accommodate location preferences, but candidates must be flexible because sites are selected based on the needs of particular campaigns.
Click here to learn more about the application process and here to apply online or here to download an application. Application deadline is May 4.
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