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The Organized Labor and Tobacco Control Network, in cooperation with
labor unions and tobacco control organizations, seeks to reduce health
disparities due to high levels of tobacco use and exposure among working
people and their families.
The network’s efforts will be accomplished through capacity building
and research. The capacity-building program aims to increase the capacity
of the tobacco control and labor movements to work toward shared goals.
The research component aims to find the most effective methods of working
with labor unions to reduce tobacco use and promote tobacco control policies
in worksites and communities.
The first research study,
Reaching Young Workers through Apprenticeship Programs in the Building Trades,
has been funded by the American Legacy Foundation.
The aims of this project were to assess the feasibility of conducting a smoking cessation program
within a unionized apprenticeship setting and to estimate the effect size of such a program on quit rates.
Preliminary analyses indicate that the program was feasible and implemented largely as planned,
with significant quit rates.
The Massachusetts AFL-CIO assisted in recruiting Ironworkers Local 7 to this study.
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