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AFSCME, AFL-CIO coordinate large scale relief efforts

Sept. 13, 2005 - Nationwide, unions are mobilizing to aid the hundreds of thousands of Gulf Coast residents devastated by Hurricane Katrina. OCSEA is coordinating a collection.

AFSCME RESPONDS – The destruction and dislocation of Katrina and its aftermath have engulfed more than 3,000 AFSCME members in Louisiana, including more than 800 who work in the hardest-hit city of New Orleans.

Browse the AFSCME the AFSCME website to learn more about how you can donate to the AFSCME Fallen Heroes Fund, support legislation and federal aid to address this crisis and future ones, or adopt a famlily by finding victims jobs and providing housing.

AFSCME Fallen Heroes Fund
1625 L St., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036-5687

Louisiana Public Employees Council/AFSCME
7315 Exchange Place
Baton Rouge, LA 70806

 

AFL-CIO RESPONDS – You also can be a part of the largest relief effort in the nation's history by contributing now to help working families through the Hurricane Relief Fund of the AFL-CIO's Union Community Fund.

Help Working Families through AFL-CIO’s Union Community Fund

 1.  Donate Online Now or

 2.  Contribution checks may be mailed to:
Union Community Fund Hurricane Relief Fund,
P.O. Box 27306 , Washington, DC 20038-7306 .

Browse the AFL-CIO website for more details about how you can help the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

See Related

• OCSEA - Unions, members aid hurricane victims; Thousands of Gulf Coast AFSCME families affected

• Hurricane Katrina Recovery Website
• FEMA Website

• American Red Cross
• America's Second Harvest
• Catholic Charities USA
• Episcopal Relief and Development
• NAACP Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund
• National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster
• Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
• Salvation Army
• United Methodist Committee on Relief
• United Way Hurricane Katrina Response Fund