Category: Women
- 03/21/11 It’s Not Only a War Against Unions, But a War Against Women The nationwide anti-union offensive is an assault on the middle class as a whole, but there is a segment of our population that is disproportionately bearing the brunt of these attacks: our union sisters.
- 03/17/11 Wisconsin Republicans Not Welcome In the Nation’s Capital Watch as hundreds of union members and other workers give Wisconsin’s Republican state legislators a special welcome to Washington, DC.
- 09/17/10 Labor 2010 Women's GOTV Postcard Campaign Women have power. Women have even more power when they vote! Join the 2010 Women’s Get-Out-The-Vote Postcard Campaign so we can make a difference on Election Day. Here’s how [...]
- 07/20/10 Ask a Working Woman It's simple: Working women are the experts on the challenges working women face at work, at home and getting by in a tough economy.
- 07/02/10 Women Take Charge at Café Hundreds of AFSCME women – and a few men – discussed ways to build leadership skills Thursday during the first-ever Women’s Leadership Café.
- 04/20/10 Dorothy Height, Civil Rights and Equal Pay Day Dr. Dorothy Height passed away this morning at the age of 98. Height, a civil rights icon and a champion for women's rights, served as president of the National Council for Negro Women and fought for school desegregation, voting rights and equality.
- 10/30/09 A Nation Transformed by Women On October 16, the Center for American Progress (CAP), in partnership with California First Lady Maria Shriver, released The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything.
- 04/28/09 Equal Pay Day 2009 Today is Equal Pay Day. This day, April 28, was chosen because it represents how far into the year a woman must work to earn the same pay as a man earned, on average, last year.
- 03/11/09 Women Made It Happen AFSCME is celebrating Women’s History Month by remembering the women before us who made it happen and looking to the future of our labor movement. Early union women took on issues like child labor, safe working conditions and better pay.
- 01/29/09 Equal Pay for Equal Work is Now the Law Today, President Obama signed his first bill into law: the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act – a landmark bill to protect workers against pay discrimination. In other words,
