Stop by the New AFL-CIO Online Convention Site

Today, we’re launching the full website for the AFL-CIO’s 26th Constitutional Convention, which runs from Sept. 13-17. 

At the AFL-CIO Convention site (www.aflcio.org/convention2009), you can:

• Keep track of events with the Convention Schedule. 

• Get fast-breaking updates on Convention action. 

• Watch video clips of the Convention floor discussions. 

• See photos from Convention events as they happen. 

• Read Convention Resolutions and Constitutional Amendments. 

• Access the Executive Council Report.

The site continues as the portal for online Convention registration for delegates and hotel information and registration (registration for alternate delegates and guests closes today).

The site also offers online registration for two major conferences taking place in Pittsburgh in the days before the Convention opens—the AFL-CIO State and Local Conference on Sept. 12 and the AFL-CIO’s Diversity Summit on Sept. 13.

You also can access information about other AFL-CIO-related meetings and conferences. The International Labor Communications Association (ILCA), the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, Union Label Department and Pride at Work will hold their conventions in Pittsburgh in the week before the convention.

AFL-CIO President John Sweeney is retiring at this year’s Convention, and we’ve created a special online photo tribute to celebrate his decades of work in that position on behalf of working people.

The site spotlights the David Lawrence Convention Center, built in 2003, the first and largest all-green convention center in the United States. Plus, union members built every square inch and are involved in every part of its operation.

You also can start exploring Pittsburgh here, with an interactive map of the Steel City that highlights historic labor sites, including markers where the AFL and CIO were both founded. You also can see what’s hot and happening downtown and access a guide to transportation such as taxi, bus and other travel information for getting around Pittsburgh.

At the historic 26th Constitutional Convention, delegates will elect a new slate of AFL-CIO officers and Executive Council members and discuss strategies to address the nation’s economic challenges and how we can maximize our unprecedented legislative opportunities for crafting labor law reform, health care reform and economic revitalization.

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