The International Labor Communications Association is the professional organization of labor communicators in North America. ILCA was founded on December 5, 1955. ILCA membership is open to national, regional, and local union publications and to media productions affiliated with the AFL-CIO, Change to Win, and the Canadian Labour Congress, as well as to associate members not affiliated with those bodies. The ILCA’s several hundred members produce publications with a total circulation in the tens of millions.
Through the power of its institutional presence, ILCA provides a platform to showcase, advance, and amplify the work of labor communicators.
With ILCA membership comes…
- Exposure and access to best practices in labor communications
- Opportunity to enter our annual Labor Media Awards contest
- Educational development at our biennial Convention
- Regular newsletter providing tips, tools, and news of the trade
- New listserv
- Peer-to-peer mentoring
- New podcast
- Press cards