New Jersey AFL-CIO Labor Candidates Program

The New Jersey State AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education (COPE) directs the Labor Candidates Program to instruct union members about fund-raising and election law, research, message development, public speaking, media relations, voter contact, volunteer recruitment, targeting, and get-out-the-vote. The Labor Candidates School and Non-Partisan Training Seminars are the cornerstones of this political program. Participants are awarded full scholarships by the New Jersey State AFL-CIO.