AFL-CIO, Capital Strategies: Leveraging Financial
Resources to Strengthen Our Workplaces and Communities
(Washington, DC: 1996). The first section includes many
examples of successful union strategies to redirect union
pension funds and other sources of capital toward worker-friendly
economic and business development. Section two outlines
the legal framework governing union benefit plans. The section
on econo9mic development includes names and phone numbers
of unionists involved in economic development in many major
unions and the AFL-CIO.
Center for Policy Alternatives, Capitalizing
on Collaboratives: New Partners for Community Development
Finance (Washington, DC: 1996).
Industrial Heartland Labor Investment Forum, Our
Money, Our Jobs: Worker Savings Funds and Long-Term Investing
in Manufacturing. Proceedings of a AFL-CIO Industrial
Union Department, AFL-CIO Public Employee Department, Steel
Valley Authority. Summary and complete Working Papers are
available from United Steelworkers of America, Five Gateway
Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15222. Phone: 412-562-2400.