2024 High School Scholarship Program
2024 TEXAS AFL-CIO SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
WHO MAY APPLY: Members or children of members of local unions or children whose legal guardians are members of local unions that are affiliated with the Texas AFL-CIO and the local Central Labor Council. Applicants must be high school seniors who are planning to attend a university, college or technical institute in the summer or fall term. Scholarships are one-time grants of $1,500.
Applications for the 2024 High School Scholarship Program have closed.
A packet of material on organized labor will be sent to each applicant in March to prepare for a test about unions. If you do not receive your packet, please contact your central labor council, a local union officer, or the Texas AFL-CIO.
SELECTION PROCESS: Each Central Labor Council will arrange all interviews and tests for applicants no later than April 26, 2024. Please contact your Central Labor Council if you have not received notice of an interview by April 5, 2024. YOU MUST BE TESTED AND INTERVIEWED IN THE CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL DISTRICT IN WHICH YOUR LOCAL UNION IS AFFILIATED.
After interviews and tests are conducted, each local Central Labor Council will select semi finalists from among their applicants. Applicant’s financial need, academic achievements, extra curricular activities, and his/her understanding of the labor movement as demonstrated by the test scores and interviews will be considered.
The statewide Scholarship Committee of the Texas AFL-CIO will select winners from among the semi-finalists. The results will be mailed to all applicants. Winning applicants’ names will be announced in the Texas AFL-CIO Labor News.
If you are awarded a scholarship, please contact the Texas AFL-CIO Education Department in writing or via email to ed@texasaflcio.org and give us the name and address of the university, college or technical institute you plan to attend. The scholarship will be paid directly to the school of your choice upon acceptance.
For further information, contact your local union officer, Central Labor Council or Edward Sills, Texas AFL-CIO Communications Director, at (512) 695-1148 or ed@texasaflcio.org.