Hawaii Island United Way : United Way

Hawaii Island United Way : United Way - Labor

United Way - Labor

Since 1946, the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and United Way of America have enjoyed a cooperative relationship through which they and state and local United Ways have provided services to members of organized labor, their families and their communities.

In Hawaii, Jack Hall of the ILWU Local 142 formed a partnership with Lowell Dillingham to create the Community Chest/Aloha United Way fund. In Hawaii, there are four full-time AFL-CIO Community Services Liaisons who staff the Labor's Community Services Program of Hawaii. They coordinate and provide valuable service to their unions and to the community and they coordinate labor's participation in the annual United Way campaigns.

Key programs and projects include the Union Community Activist Network training, the Boy Scouts' American Labor Merit Badge Clinics, the Girls Scouts' Interest Project Patch Clinics, the National Letter Carrier's Annual Food Drive (NALC), and a Holiday Project.

For more information, contact Steven Querobin, AFL-CIO Community Services Liaison, at 969-3236 or Stq138@hawaiiantel.net.

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