The mission of the Northern Virginia Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO is to improve the lives of working families—to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our commonwealth and the nation. To accomplish this mission, we work to:

 

• Build a broad movement of Virginia workers by helping workers join and form unions.
• Support Virginia workers as they bargain with employers to improve their living conditions and workplaces, as well as their communities, state and nation.
• Strengthen the voice of Virginia working families at all levels of government and in a changing global economy.

The Northern Virginia Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO is a key part of the nation's largest and strongest labor federation—the AFL-CIO, which unites 10.5 million working women and men of every race and ethnicity and from every walk of life.

It’s not much of a shock that lies are popping up in the Republican presidential nomination race. But in Michigan, Mitt Romney is telling one whopper of lie about the UAW, the auto bailout that saved two of the nation’s Big 3 car manufacturers and President Obama. In a nutshell, Romney says Obama should have let Chrysler and GM go bankrupt—that should win him a lot of votes in Michigan today—and Obama instead “gave the companies to the UAW.” Read more >>>