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The AFL-CIO Organizing Institute (best known as "the Organizing Institute," and often as simply "the OI"), located at 815 16th St., NW, Organizing Department - 4th Floor, Washington, District of Columbia, 20006, United States, is a unit within the Organizing and Field Services Department of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. Founded in 1989, the OI serves as the primary training body for most organizers in the AFL-CIO and its member unions. Despite its small budget, size and organizational status, the OI has played a major role in the history of the AFL-CIO. The OI has been described as the "AFL-CIO's most innovative initiative on the external organizing front".〔Hurd, "The Failure of Organizing, the New Unity Partnership, and the Future of the Labor Movement," ''WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society,'' September 2004, p. 7.〕 Since its inception, the OI has trained more than 7,000 union members as "member-organizers" and another 3,000 staff organizers (1,000 of whom were new to the labor movement). Nearly a third of its new staff organizers are college-age or college graduates.〔Smucker, "Training Union Organizers in the Middle of a Fight: The AFL-CIO's Organizing Institute," ''Labor Notes,'' November 2002.〕〔Lynem, "Campus Solidarity With Labor Grows," ''San Francisco Chronicle,'' September 2, 2002.〕 ==Structure and programs== The following information on the OI has not been updated with the post 2005 information. The Organizing Institute was created in the spring of 1989 to promote and foster union organizing.〔 The OI's primary program is to train union members and non-members to be labor organizers. The OI currently provides two training programs: A two-day training program for union members who will return to the workplace, and a three-day training program for union members and others who wish to become full-time organizers. Attendees in the two-day program are usually "sponsored" by an AFL-CIO union, which pays for their tuition, room and board. Most attendees in the three-day program are not sponsored by an AFL-CIO union. During the training programs, attendees are assessed on their organizing skills and ability to learn by OI staff and other experienced union organizers. Sponsoring unions are encouraged to utilize OI graduates in ongoing internal and external organizing campaigns. Participants not sponsored by a union are given career counseling regarding job prospects and additional training and/or education upon graduation.〔"FAQs About the Organizing Institute," AFL-CIO, no date.〕 Graduates of the three-day training program who receive a high assessment from evaluators are eligible to participate in the OI's three-month field training program. Within nine months following graduation from the three-day training program, the graduate will be placed in an actual union organizing campaign. Successful completion of the field training is highly valued by AFL-CIO unions, and placement rates for field-trained organizers tops 90 percent.〔 The OI also offers two-to-three day training programs tailored to meet the needs of organizers and members involved in an existing organizing campaign.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Organizing Institute」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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