This article looks at a series of educational programs on attitudes toward immigrants conducted for the South Florida Regional Coun cil of the Carpenters Union by the author. It details the content and nature of the programs, the key players, the relationships of the programs to change within the union, internal union sensi tivities, and the end results. The case is analyzed to indicate key issues surrounding education of this type: its sensitive nature, the centrality of surfacing normally hidden feelings and opinions, the need for decisive backing from key power centers within the union, the blurring of the difference between "education" and "consult ing" in this type of labor education, and several necessities/cau tions for this type of labor education to work.
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