More than 500 people braved the elements of Milwaukee in November to attend the AFL-CIO Working for America Institute’s 2003 Annual Conference November 9-12.

This year’s conference — co-sponsored by the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO; the Community Transportation Center; Good Jobs First; the Industrial Union Council, AFL-CIO; the Milwaukee County Labor Council, AFL-CIO; the Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership and the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO — drew participants from 41 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Canada.

Each day of the 3-day conference focused on a particular stakeholder group with a vested interest in building communities that work for working families: unions, employer and union partnerships, and community organizations.