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Virtual Event: Lifting Up Women on the Shop Floor

Virtual Event: Lifting Up Women on the Shop Floor Picture a manufacturing worker. Are you imagining a woman wielding a torch or assembling an SUV? The manufacturing sector provides good jobs with family-supporting wages and benefits, which do not require four-year degrees. More women should hold these jobs. Yet they are underrepresented in manufacturing, […]

Nursing Home Initiative to Right America’s Injustices

Nursing Home Initiative to Right America’s Injustices The worst of the pandemic appears to be over but make no mistake: Our country is still dealing with the loss of life and disability left in its wake as millions of families are still recovering from this tragedy. It also revealed a truth about the inequitable economic treatment of women and workers of col […]

Call: Paycheck Fairness Act

Call: Paycheck Fairness Act The Paycheck Fairness Act increases penalties when employers violate equal pay provisions. It also makes it unlawful to prohibit employees from discussing their wages. Take two minutes to ask your senators and representative to support the Paycheck Fairness Act. Make a Call. Today is Equal Pay Day because women have to work unti […]

International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day Women are now nearly 50% of the workforce—yet inequality in the workplace continues. Unequal pay, harassment and discrimination are just some of the abuses women face daily. But when women stand together, they can demand equality. And a union contract delivers. We must do everything we can to protect our right to organize, especiall […]

2023 Women Labor Leaders

2023 Women Labor Leaders This Women’s History Month, we’re profiling leaders who are making women’s history across the labor movement today. There’s been a surge of organizing by women. Some 60% of workers organizing in the past decade have been women, and that means female leadership is the rule, not the exception. Here are just a few of the women leaders […]

Black History Month Profiles: Desirae Beatty

Black History Month Profiles: Desirae Beatty This year, for Black History Month, we're taking a look at a group of leaders who are currently active making Black history across the labor movement. Check back daily for a new profile and meet some of the people working to improve not only their community, but also to improve conditions for working people a […]

Black History Month Profiles: E. Faye Butler

Black History Month Profiles: E. Faye Butler This year, for Black History Month, we're taking a look at a group of leaders who are currently active making Black history across the labor movement. Check back daily for a new profile and meet some of the people working to improve not only their community, but also to improve conditions for working people a […]

Black History Month Profiles: Dewanda Mitchell

Black History Month Profiles: Dewanda Mitchell This year, for Black History Month, we're taking a look at a group of leaders who are currently active making Black history across the labor movement. Check back daily for a new profile and meet some of the people working to improve not only their community, but also to improve conditions for working people […]

Black History Month Profiles: Derrick McDonald II

Black History Month Profiles: Derrick McDonald II This year, for Black History Month, we're taking a look at a group of leaders who are currently active making Black history across the labor movement. Check back daily for a new profile and meet some of the people working to improve not only their community, but also to improve conditions for working peo […]

Black History Month Profiles: Linda Hunt

Black History Month Profiles: Linda Hunt This year, for Black History Month, we're taking a look at a group of leaders who are currently active making Black history across the labor movement. Check back daily for a new profile and meet some of the people working to improve not only their community, but also to improve conditions for working people acros […]