TNG’S BERGER-MARKS FOUNDATION TO OFFER GRANTS TO CLUW CHAPTERS

WASHINGTON (PAI)—Stepping up its efforts to promote women in union organizing – and in other roles in the labor movement – The Newspaper Guild’s Berger-Marks Foundation will offer program grants to local chapters of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW).

CLUW President Karen See said the grants will let the local CLUW chapters “for the first time ever, be as creative as they can be to create programs they only dreamed about or to replicate a program they have seen somewhere else” to bring more women into both organizing and leadership roles in the labor movement.

Berger-Marks set up the grant program after CLUW’s earlier report on women in the movement and the obstacles they face in organizing and training. The application deadline for the grants is April 1.

The foundation grants will let CLUW chapters set up mentoring, run educational programs for young woman workers, plan and run programs on women’s health issues and will let the CLUW chapters survey young woman workers on specific issues, and then use the surveys to fashion all-new programs for woman workers. ###