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Funding

We have been successful and fortunate in receiving substantial funding for a variety of projects aimed at promoting and sharing high quality, independent research about the status of American workers.         

Sources of funding include:

  • Massachusetts Financial Services Institutional Advisors - Workplace Standards and Financial Services Grant for MFS Union Standard Fund
  • Retirement Research Foundation - Grant funds have come from the Retirement Research Foundation over a period of six years for the “Making Retirement Work: Affording Pensions for All Americans” project.

In addition, Center research and activities have been sustained by the generosity of many contributors, including:

  • AFL-CIO
  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  • American Postal Workers Union
  • Coalition of Labor Union Women
  • Eastern Priests' Province of the Congregation of Holy Cross
  • Graphic Communications Int’l Union
  • Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union
  • National Association of Letter Carriers and Service Employees Int’l Union
  • United Brotherhood of Carpenters Local 413
  • Communications Workers of America
  • International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
  • United Auto Workers
  • Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union
  • Int’l Association of Machinists
  • Needletrades Union
  • United Steelworkers of America
  • Int’l Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers
  • Int’l Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers
  • Int’l Union of Operating Engineers
  • Office and Professional Employees Int’l Union
  • American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees  
Higgins Labor Research Center
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