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A CIO affiliate, the Detroit Industrial Union Council, elected its first woman organizer, Mae McKernan. [6] After a proposal submission to the IEB, the UAW Women's Bureau was established, electing Mildred Jeffery as its first director. December 8 and 9 1944 a women's conference was held and attended by 149 women from 46 states in 99 union ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Trade union leaders. It includes labour leaders that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories
The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), whose members were employed in the women's clothing industry, was once one of the largest labor unions in the United States, one of the first US unions to have a primarily female membership, and a key player in the labor history of the 1920s and 1930s.
This April, Wiki Women in Red has a geofocus on women from French overseas regions, territories and collectivities.These include: in the Americas French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon; in Oceania, French Polynesia, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna; in the Indian Ocean, Mayotte and Réunion.
The Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of trade union women affiliated with the AFL–CIO. The CLUW is a bridging organization that seeks to create connections between the feminist movement and the labor movement in the United States. The organization works towards overcoming past constraints and ...
She is the first woman to be elected president of the federation. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She was previously the first woman and (as of 2009) the youngest person to hold the position of Secretary-Treasurer. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] She is the highest-ranking woman in the labor federation's history.
Rose Schneiderman (April 6, 1882 – August 11, 1972) was a Polish-born American labor organizer and feminist, and one of the most prominent female labor union leaders. As a member of the New York Women's Trade Union League, she drew attention to unsafe workplace conditions, following the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, and as a suffragist she helped to pass the New York state ...