Friday, May 18, 2012
American Jobs Minimize

 

Yes! I pledge to support American Jobs @ American Airlines and those with related jobs in our community. I will tell public officials, the news media and community leaders that employees at American Airlines and American Eagle and all workers dependent on these airlines must be treated fairly. No attacks on pension funds, and no outsourcing of good-paying American jobs. We can stand together to support American jobs.

  • Corporate  management  and  high-priced  lawyers  should  not  abuse  the  bankruptcy process  to  cut  American  jobs.
  • We  are  the  99%,  who  go  to  work  every  day,  pay  our  bills  and  pay  our  taxes.
  • America  needs  a  middle  class  with  good  jobs  and  good  wages  to  drive  economic recovery  in  our  communities  and  across  the  nation.
  • Remember  many  of  AMR’s employees  are  veterans.  They  fought  for  our  country  and now  face  unemployment  or  massive  benefit  cuts.

OCTOBER 2011 ATDWWC MEETING Minimize

 

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."  

Maya Angelou (American Writer) 

 

February 2012 Meeting in Hurst, TX
To view more photos click here 
  

WILD Women's Institute Minimize

Bread & WILD Roses:
The 26th Annual WILD Summer Institute

Where:
Wheaton College
Norton, MA

Bus transportation from Boston available-- register online for a seat or email susan@wildlabor.org.

When:
Friday June 22, 2012 at 5:00 PM EDT
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Sunday June 24, 2012 at 3:00 PM EDT


Greetings!

In June, diverse women from all over Massachusetts will come together for a weekend of education and relationship-building for a stronger labor movement.

Will you join us?

At the WILD Summer Institute, you will:
Cultivate a vision of leadership for yourself within your union, organization, workplace, or community;

Learn skills in an issue area of your choice, including:

  • Moving a legislative agenda
  • Taking action for health & safety on the job
  • Becoming a union-building steward
  • Organizing for immigrants' rights (Eng/Span) 
  • Organizing through one-on-one relationship-building (Eng/Span) 
  • Asserting your rights when alone in the workplace (Eng/Span/Port)
  • Getting involved in the Occupy movement and taking back our economy & political system from the wealthiest 1%
  • Public Speaking (Spanish & Portuguese only)   

Connect with other labor movement women, to support and inspire each other! 

Register Now!

Childcare is available with pre-registration--call 617-426-0520 to register.

Please call or email me with any questions. More details are available at our web site, www.wildlabor.org.

See you in June!

Sincerely,

Emily Hardt, Director
Women's Institute for Leadership Development
emily@wildlabor.org
617-426-0520


 For questions, comments or content suggestions, please send email to: atucker@twu.org 

 

 

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Message from CLUW Minimize

Nearly 25% of women will experience domestic violence. CLUW is part of the coalition of more than 300 national groups supporting re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act. (S. 1925). 

 

We expect the Senate to vote on S. 1925 this week, and telephone calls are needed to ensure that this life-saving, life-affirming legislation is approved! 

 

Please let your senators know that S. 1925 is the only bill that protects ALL women who are victims of violence. 

 

You can find your senators’ numbers here.

 

Call with this message 

“S. 1925 is the REAL VAWA.  Vote no on the Grassley/Hutchison language and any other amendments to VAWA.  Support S. 1925.  A vote for any other language or amendment is a vote AGAINST VAWA.  I am your constituent and my views were taken into consideration in the development of S. 1925 – it reflects the needs of victims in your state.”

  

See below CLUW’s contribution to the Blog Carnival on this subject with the post by Janet Hill, CLUW VP (USW) 

 

Congress Rocking Back the Clock for Women

April 24, 2012 By admin   Leave a Comment  

by Janet Hill, Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), National VP for USW Coalition of Labor Union Women, Beaver Valley NOW, jhill@usw.org

 

Some familiar faces in Congress are more concerned with rocking back the clock rather than rocking round the clock where women and families are concerned.  The Violence against Women Act (VAWA) is currently being blocked in Congress.

 

Some might ask, doesn’t everybody want to protect women and families against violence and hey didn’t George Bush sign this?  But that was before – gasp – the act was extended to protect the following underserved groups – undocumented female immigrants, Native American women and double gasp LBTGQ victims.

 

Undocumented female immigrants frequently have their undocumented status used as a weapon against them.   Thirty four percent of American Indian and Alaska Native women will be raped in their lifetimes; 39% will be subjected to domestic violence in their lifetimes; and on some reservations, Native women are murdered at more than ten times the national average.  The LBTGQ community experiences violence at the same rates as the non-LBTGQ community but they have difficulty in getting services. For example, 45 percent of LGBT victims were turned away when they sought help from a domestic violence shelter, according to a 2010 survey, and nearly 55 percent of those who sought protection orders were denied them

 

In 1985 the Surgeon General identified domestic violence as a public health issue. Joe Biden introduced the first violence against Women Act in 1990 and along with the Judiciary Committee did a three year study in to the causes and effects of violence on women.  In 1994 because it was thought that preventing violence against women was a commonsense issue that benefited everyone and passed with bipartisan support.  Each time the act was reauthorized it was expanded and improved.  Each time it passed with bipartisan support.

 

This legislation has been commonsense since 1994 shouldn’t it continue to be so?

 

 

Carol S. Rosenblatt
Executive Director
Coalition of Labor Union Women


MISSION STATEMENT Minimize

Whereas, we are approaching the 21st century with women making up half the workforce of our country and an increasing part of the Transport Workers Union of America,

 And whereas, the National and Local Officers of the Transport Workers Union of America must take the lead in organizing, recruitment, education and the development of women to be strong rank-and-file and strong leaders to serve the needs of our increasingly diverse membership,

Be it resolved, The Transport Workers Union of America has created a Women's Sub-Committee with the objective to promote concerns of women in our great Union and of working Union women everywhere.

In as much, we have begun the process to encourage our Locals to have educational programs that build self-esteem among our Sisters and encourage participation among women in all our Locals, to have on-going education programs in leadership, politics and political action, to assist and support women in the workplace on issues that confront them on a daily basis; such as, affordable child care and elder care, sexual harassment, workplace violence and discrimination, and to provide information and resource referrals on women's health issues such as, but not limited to, breast cancer and HIV. Because of these objectives our slogan will be "Each one...teach one for Union women everywhere."

Approved at the International Executive Council Meeting on June 9, 1998. 
  

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