The Massachusetts AFL-CIO is committed to a “high road” workforce and economic development philosophy that builds stronger communities, increases business competitiveness, and improves the skills and livelihoods of workers. The program works with unions, employers, and the public workforce system to form partnerships that focus on innovation, productivity, and skill.

The program receives financial support from private foundations, unions, and federal and state resources. State government invests in the program to deliver services to incumbent and dislocated workers. Through its six offices across the Commonwealth, the program supports state government’s Rapid Response program, providing the capacity and expertise it needs to respond effectively to meet the needs of victims of layoffs. Under a separate investment from the state, the program delivers an innovative incumbent worker program. It is specifically designed to the increase the productivity, safety, and skills of the current workforce – in the process connecting private industry partnerships with the public workforce investment system.

The Massachusetts AFL-CIO delivers the following workforce services:

• Provides Rapid Response services that annually assist thousands of laid-off workers, their unions, companies and communities
• Assists dislocated workers in search of a new career path, either through re-training or job search
• Helps state access funding to assist dislocated workers (e.g., National Emergency Grants from the U.S. Secretary of Labor and Trade Adjustment Assistance)
• Develops layoff aversion strategies, where possible, to prevent layoffs and dislocations
• Researches, develops, and employs best practices in dislocated worker services
• Provides Incumbent Worker Training services to assist unions, employers, and labor-management partnerships to address the training needs of individual workers
• Represents the voice of workers in the “dual-customer” workforce system – a system that is designed to benefit both the individual worker and the individual busines
• Delivers training and technical assistance to labor representatives on the Commonwealth’s Workforce Investment Boards
• Convenes high-road partnerships in specific sectors of the Commonwealth’s economy
• Conducts public policy and economic analysis
• Advocates for worker-friendly public policies
• Develops and disseminates resource materials, a quarterly newsletter, resource guides and training bulletins to assist union leaders from across the state
  
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  To learn about Massachusetts grants for workforce training see the links below:
  
  Workforce Training Fund
  Learn about Massachusetts grants for workforce training
  
  Adult and Community Learning Services- Massachusetts Department of Education
  Adult education/workplace literacy at the Massachusetts Department of Education
  
  H1-B Technical Training
  Federal training grants at the US Department of Labor
  
  Extended Care Career Ladder Initiative
  Training grants for nursing home & home care workers
  
  MassINC
  
  Read up on research about the skill needs of Massachusetts workers
  
  Consortium for Worker Education (CWE)
  A union-based non-profit agency offering worker education in New York City
  
  District 1199C, Philadelphia
  Training and upgrading in the healthcare field
  
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