The Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan Latino organization affiliated with the AFL-CIO and the Change to Win federation. It was formed in 1973 to provide Latino trade union members in the United States with a more effective voice within the AFL-CIO, to encourage Latino participation on the democratic process, and to encourage the organization of Latino workers into labor unions.
LCLAA is the official "voice" of Latinos within the AFL-CIO, and one of six official "constituency groups". It is based in the headquarters of the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C. In 2006, it had 65 chapters in the United States and Puerto Rico, and claimed to represent 1.7 million Latino trade unionists.
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