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The Berger-Marks Foundation

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The Berger-Marks
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The Foundation was established with a bequest from the estates of Edna Berger, the first female lead organizer for The Newspaper Guild-CWA, and her husband, the legendary Tin Pan Alley song-writer Gerald Marks.

We seek to bring the benefits of unionization to working women and to assist organizations com- mitted to those principles. The goal is to provide financial assistance to women who are engaged in union organizing and to assist working women who want to organize other women into unions through training, research and other resources

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Fact: Nearly half of today's workers are women

Most workers today would like to belong to a union.* -- and women are more likely to join a union if the lead organizer is a woman.

* Hart poll of non-management workers, Feb., 2005

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