Approved Sept. 27, 2005

Our movement has been strongest throughout history when it unites and empowers all working people and reflects at all levels our diversity in terms of
race, ethnicity, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, and other factors.

Unity that builds on diversity is particularly urgent today as all working people are facing attacks on our rights and living standards, with people of color, immigrants, and working women being the hardest hit.

It’s no wonder that a recent national poll showed that 77 percent of black workers and 72 percent of Latinos would support having a union where they work.

By mounting the largest and most effective organizing program in generations, we will help raise standards for millions of families and their communities and ensure that our movement reflects today’s workforce.

To do so, we commit to establish standards, timetables, and accountability measures to ensure that the diversity of our membership is reflected in membership participation, elected leadership, staff, training opportunities, event speakers, and conventions and other decision-making bodies.

Our commitment is to ensure diversity in all of the mainstream functions and decision-making processes of our movement, rather than to treat diversity as a separate and isolated program.

Our unions have played a leading role in the movement to defend the rights of immigrant workers to join a union and be protected on the job, and we will continue to do so.

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