AFL-CIO - American Federation of Labor
and Congress of Industrial Organizations

TNG-CWA Local 34159 is affiliated with the local branch of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.

The AFL-CIO is an expression of the hopes and aspirations of the working people of America. The Screen Actors Guild and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers are among the more than 100 unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO.

According to the AFL-CIO's constitution:

We resolve to fulfill the yearning of the human spirit for liberty, justice and community; to advance individual and associational freedom; to vanquish oppression, privation and cruelty in all their forms; and to join with all persons, of whatever nationality or faith, who cherish the cause of democracy and the call of solidarity, to grace the planet with these achievements.

We dedicate ourselves to improving the lives of working families, bringing fairness and dignity to the workplace and securing social equity in the Nation. We will prevail by building a strong, free and democratic labor movement.

We will give political voice to workers in the Nation. We will fight for an agenda for working families at all levels of government. We will assemble a broad progressive coalition for social and economic justice. We will create a political force within the labor movement that will speak forcefully and persuasively on the public issues that affect our lives.