--- title: Disaster Relief Fund helps union members devastated by Kentucky floods description: The America’s Work Force Union Podcast is the nation’s premier daily labor program. Bill Londrigan of the Kentucky AFL-CIO joined us on today’s show. image: https://awf.labortools.com/hubfs/kentucky%20AFL%20CIO%20Mic%20Red.jpg --- 1 min read Season 3, Episode 151 # Disaster Relief Fund helps union members devastated by Kentucky floods [ awfblog ](https://awf.labortools.com/listen/author/awfblog) August 3, 2022 [Local Union](https://awf.labortools.com/listen/tag/local-union) [America's Work Force Union Podcast](https://awf.labortools.com/listen/tag/americas-work-force-union-podcast) [AFL-CIO](https://awf.labortools.com/listen/tag/afl-cio) [Health, Welfare, and Safety](https://awf.labortools.com/listen/tag/health-welfare-and-safety) ![kentucky afl cio](https://awf.labortools.com/hs-fs/hubfs/kentucky%20afl%20cio.jpg?width=407&name=kentucky%20afl%20cio.jpg)   Guest Name: --- Bill Londrigan Guest Website: --- [ky.aflcio.org](https://ky.aflcio.org/) Guest Social Media: --- [ Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/aflcioky) [ Twitter](https://twitter.com/aflcioky) [ YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/user/KentuckyLabor) [ LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/afl-cio) Supportive Documents: --- [Kentucky AFL-CIO](https://ky.aflcio.org/) President Bill Londrigan joined the America’s Work Force Union Podcast and discussed the effort by Kentucky-based Local Unions to provide disaster relief to those impacted by last week’s devastating floods in the state. The Kentucky AFL-CIO represents about 10,000 union members who live in the counties hit hardest by flooding, Londrigan said. So far, 37 people are dead and hundreds of people are missing, including some Kentucky AFL-CIO Affiliated members, he added.  Londrigan detailed efforts to help affiliated members through the Union Disaster Relief Fund which, was established to provide union families with assistance and resources through the United Way of Kentucky. The fund was originally created in December 2021 to help union members who were affected by last year’s tornadoes. Anyone wishing to help those devastated by the floods [can donate to the Union Disaster Relief Fund](https://ky.aflcio.org/disaster), United Way of Kentucky, P.O. Box 4653 Louisville, KY, 40204-0653. Make sure to include “Union Disaster Relief” on the check, which should be made payable to the United Way of Kentucky. Listen to the entire episode to learn more about the effort. --- America’s Work Force is the only daily labor podcast in the US and has been on the air since 1993, supplying listeners with useful, relevant input into their daily lives through fact-finding features, in-depth interviews, informative news segments and practical consumer reports. America’s Work Force is committed to providing an accessible venue in which America's workers and their families can hear discussion on important, relevant topics such as employment, healthcare, legislative action, labor-management relations, corporate practices, finances, local and national politics, consumer reports and labor issues. 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