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The AFL-CIO Organizing Institute -LRB- best known as `` the Organizing Institute , '' and often as simply `` the OI '' -RRB- , located at 815 16th St. , NW , Organizing Department - 4th Floor , Washington , District of Columbia , 20006 , United States , is a unit within the Organizing and Field Services Department of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations .. American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. AFL-CIO. Founded in 1989 , the OI serves as the primary training body for most organizers in the AFL-CIO and its member unions .. unions. trade union. Despite its small budget , size and organizational status , the OI has played a major role in the history of the AFL-CIO .. The OI has been described as the `` AFL-CIO 's most innovative initiative on the external organizing front '' .. Since its inception , the OI has trained more than 7,000 union members as `` member-organizers '' and another 3,000 staff organizers -LRB- 1,000 of whom were new to the labor movement -RRB- .. Nearly a third of its new staff organizers are college-age or college graduates .