How do those organizations make endorsements?
Building Trades endorsements may be made in a variety of ways. In some cases, delegates to the St. Louis Building Trades Council make recommendations regarding candidates or ballot issues to the full Building Trades Council and a vote taken. The Building Trades may also adopt or refer to the recommendations of area labor clubs (see the section on informed voter), the St. Louis Labor Council or the MO AFL-CIO.

How do those organizations make endorsements?
Area Labor Clubs consist of rank and file union members as well as representatives of organized labor who make recommendations for local candidates or ballot issues to the St. Louis Labor Council. Those candidates are usually invited to an interview or allowed a written response to determine their position on issues that are important to working families.

Recommendations to the St. Louis Labor Council Committee on Political Education are then voted on by the delegates to the Council. Recommendations for statewide candidates within that jurisdiction, are also based on interviews or legislative record, and voted on by the delegates to that council. Other federal and state candidate recommendations are voted on at the state and national levels by their respective delegates.

Local Unions may also endorse and support candidates and issues of their own choosing.

It is important that union members and their families get involved in the process.