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Virtual Event: Lifting Up Women on the Shop Floor

Picture a manufacturing worker. Are you imagining a woman wielding a torch or assembling an SUV? 

The manufacturing sector provides good jobs with family-supporting wages and benefits, which do not require four-year degrees. More women should hold these jobs.

Virtual Event: Lifting Up Women on the Shop Floor

International Women’s Day

Women are now nearly 50% of the workforce—yet inequality in the workplace continues. Unequal pay, harassment and discrimination are just some of the abuses women face daily.

International Women’s Day

Call: Paycheck Fairness Act

The Paycheck Fairness Act increases penalties when employers violate equal pay provisions.

Call: Paycheck Fairness Act

International Women’s Day

Women are now nearly 50% of the workforce—yet inequality in the workplace continues. Unequal pay, harassment and discrimination are just some of the abuses women face daily.

But when women stand together, they can demand equality. And a union contract delivers.

International Women’s Day

Pathway to Progress: The Pittston Coal Strike of 1989

History has long been portrayed as a series of "great men" taking great action to shape the world we live in. In recent decades, however, social historians have focused more on looking at history "from the bottom up," studying the vital role that working people played in our heritage. 

Pathway to Progress: The Pittston Coal Strike of 1989

Celebrating Leaders and Activists for Black History Month

This year, for Black History Month, we're taking a look at a group of leaders who are currently active making Black history across the labor movement.

Celebrating Leaders and Activists for Black History Month