United Association for Labor Education (UALE) is an international
association
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for post-secondary, community, union and associated labor educators based in
Chicago, Illinois
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UALE was founded on April 15, 2000, in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee ( ), officially the City of Milwaukee, is both the most populous and most densely populated city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, Milwaukee County. With a population of 577,222 at th ...
, through the merger of the university and College Labor Education Association and Workers' Education Local 189 (an affiliate of the
Communications Workers of America
The Communications Workers of America (CWA) is the largest communications and media labor union in the United States, representing about 700,000 members in both the private and public sectors (also in Canada and Puerto Rico). The union has 27 l ...
,
AFL–CIO
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL–CIO) is the largest federation of unions in the United States. It is made up of 56 national and international unions, together representing more than 12 million ac ...
).
The goals of the UALE are to promote the development and professionalization of labor education, and to advocate for increased support of labor education programs in higher education and the international
labor movement.
UALE co-publishes, with
West Virginia University
West Virginia University (WVU) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Morgantown, West Virginia. Its other campuses are those of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Beckley, Potomac State Coll ...
, ''
Labor Studies Journal'', a multi-disciplinary publication about workers and labor organizations.
External links
United Association for Labor Education''Labor Studies Journal''
Professional associations based in the United States
Organizations established in 2000
Organizations based in Chicago
Labor studies organizations
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