Swapping Stories: Women
HOTEL WORKERS RALLY VS. SEXUAL EXPLOITATION ON THE JOB
HOTEL WORKERS RALLY VS. SEXUAL EXPLOITATION ON THE JOB
NEW YORK (PAI)—“There once was a union maid, who never was afraid,” begins the old song about activist union women. Well, members of Unite Here – real union maids – were not afraid when they spoke up the week of June 6-11 against sexual exploitation of maids and other hotel workers by hotel guests.
EQUAL PAY DAY PROMPTS NEW CALL FOR PAY EQUITY LEGISLATION
EQUAL PAY DAY PROMPTS NEW
CALL FOR PAY EQUITY LEGISLATION
WASHINGTON (PAI)—Equal Pay Day, the day each year when median hourly wages for a working woman equal those of a working man in identical circumstances the year before, prompted renewed calls for pay equity legislation on Capitol Hill.
UNIONISTS SUPPORT WOMAN WAL-MART WORKERS
UNIONISTS SUPPORT WOMAN WAL-MART WORKERS
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (PAI)—As attorneys for Wal-Mart’s working women argued their landmark class-action suit inside the U.S. Supreme Court on March 29, unionists and their allies made their position clear in the plaza in front of the court’s portico:
They’re on the side of the working women.
JUSTICES DIG INTO DETAILS OF WAL-MART SEX DISCRIMINATION
JUSTICES DIG INTO DETAILS OF
WAL-MART SEX DISCRIMINATION
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (PAI)—The U.S. Supreme Court dug into the details of Wal-Mart’s years of discrimination against the retail behemoth’s own woman workers, trying to figure out whether those women as a class could sue the monster company.
TRIANGLE FIRE COMMEMORATION DRAWS PARALLELS WITH TODAY
TRIANGLE FIRE COMMEMORATION
DRAWS PARALLELS WITH TODAY
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (PAI)—A half-day-long Capitol Hill commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in Manhattan – a fire that killed 146 young immigrant workers, almost all of them women – drew uncomfortable parallels with conditions facing workers today.
FROM THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE TO THE PRESENT DAY
FROM THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE TO THE PRESENT DAY
The more things change the more they stay the same
By Gary Schoichet
From high up, 10th and 11th floors, terrified, they jumped out of windows to escape the fire and smoke
that was taking over the factory where they worked. 21 workers, mostly women, many quite young,
their lives were extinguished before they got going.
Profile: ACKERMAN: ‘REAL CHANGE IS FROM THE BOTTOM UP’
Profile: ACKERMAN: ‘REAL CHANGE IS FROM THE BOTTOM UP’
By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (PAI)—For Karen Ackerman, in all her years in the labor movement, the key lesson – which she’s pushed politically – is that “real change comes from the bottom up.”
Berger-Marks Foundation to offer grants to CLUW chapters
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).
Words of Witness
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Sisters in the Brotherhoods by Jane LaTour
Sisters in the Brotherhoods
Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City
by Jane LaTour,
Palgrave - MacMillian
ISBN 978-0-230-61918-0
A woman fire fighter, carpenter or police officer might raise an eyebrow, but a woman trades worker is no longer a novelty.
In the early 1970s, when many women made their first forays into the construction trades, firehouse or truck cab, women were not only a novelty, but often perceived as a threat.
