Conference on Creative Organizing

June 22-24, at the Great Labor Arts Exchange

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AFL-CIO's Ask a Working Woman survey:

Tell us about your job, how it could be better

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'Women's Ways of Organizing' project roundtable

Thurs. May 1, 6- 8 p.m. in New York City

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Organizing immigrant workers

Sisters on the Frontline forum in NYC May 15

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Does Labor Have a CLUW?

Unions & the Feminist Agenda

You're invited!
25 W. 43rd St., New York City, at 8:30 a.m. (18th floor)

T his forum, whose title is inspired by the Coalition of Labor Union Women, is co-sponsored by the Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies and Cornell University’s Institute for Women and Work.

Participants will explore why the labor movement hasn't yet fully integrated women—especially women of color—into leadership, and to what extent labor negotiations address feminist concerns, including pay equity, maternity leave, flexible work schedules, and rights and protections for lesbian and gay workers. Three prominent feminist thinkers will speak:

Alice Kessler-Harris, a pioneering Columbia University historian on women, work and the U.S. labor movement;
Niki T. Dickerson, assistant professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers University, who writes on the issue of black and Latino women leadership in the labor movement;
Heidi Hartmann, President of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), which studies the economic impact of public policies on women and their families.

To attend, RSVP to Eloiza Morales by January 21st at (212) 642-2029 or eloiza.morales@mail.cuny.edu. For more information