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Subject Focus: Women in Labor Unions
Posted March 15th, 2012 by drice
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- Affirmative action
- AFSCME
- American Federation of Teachers
- Civil rights
- CLUW
- Coalition of Labor Union Women (U.S.)
- Equality
- Feldman, Sandra
- Feminism
- Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
- Huerta, Dolores, 1930-
- Jeffrey, Mildred, 1911-2004
- Kraus, Dorothy
- Labor
- Labor movement
- Labor unions
- Madar, Olga M.
- Pay equity
- SEIU
- Subject focus
- UAW
- Wolfgang, Myra, 1914-1976
- Women
- Women employees
- Women in the labor movement
- Women's rights
- Workers' rights
- Working class women
“We didn’t come here to swap recipes!” Those words, uttered by Myra Wolfgang during the first Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) convention in 1974 set the tone for an agenda aimed at increasing women’s involvement and influence in labor unions. Coming on the heels of landmark legislation such as the Equal Pay Act (1963), the Civil Rights Act (1964), and the Equal Employment Opportunities Act (1972), the formation of CLUW institutionalized the long-held ambitions of individual female union members to participate more fully in the labor movement. read more »
