How women organizers used Berger-Marks grants
Groups & research funded by Berger-Marks
Women organizing women:
special report
News archives, 2007
Yale New Haven Hospital Calls for New Union Election
Rare move to defeat Local 1199/SEIU blasted by mayor
Summer schools for union women
Thanks to CLUW for providing this information
June 27 - July 1: Evergreen College
Labor Center's Summer School for Union Women and Community Activists:
"At Home, On the Job, In the Community:
Women Organizing for Healthy Families and Healthy Workplaces" in Olympia,
Wash.
Funded in part by
Berger-Marks Foundation
July 8-13: Northeast
Regional Summer School for Union Women:
"Getting Political About Making Change" to
be held at the National Labor College on the
George Meany campus in Silver Spring, Maryland focusing on leadership
skills. See the
brochure.
July 17-21: Western
Regional Summer Institute for Union Women: "Women United
for Action! For strong & healthy
families, unions & communities" in Berkeley,
Calif. Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Labor Center.
July 26 - 29: 2007 Michigan Summer School for Women Workers will be held on the campus of Michigan State Univ. in East Lansing, Michigan. Open to all women workers.
July 29 - Aug. 2: 2007
Midwest School for Women Workers:
"Union Women: Power Through Political
Action" To be held in
Iowa City, Iowa .
Right to organize guarantees in trade pacts
AFL-CIO: Trade policy needs big overhaul & enforcement of worker rights
Organizing Institute offers training for '07
Applications from union organizers now being accepted online.
Senate votes for airport screeners' right to organize
Defying veto threat, vote is 51-48 to overturn ban on unions in anti-terrorist law
Community-wide campaigns needed to organize female workers
Speaking to Clearinghouse on Women’s Issues, Cordovilla & Rosenblatt call for broad approach
Hundreds of organizers urged to read
"Women
Organizing Women" report
AFL-CIO Organizing Director Acuff promotes report produced by Berger-Marks Foundation at Dec. 2006 Organizing Summit
More from the Dec. 2006 Organizing Summit:
AFL-CIO to create "stewards army," fight for workers' rights to free choice
Cornell Conference "Sisters on the Frontline:
Organizing Women & Building Power" March 30- April 1, 2007
Women's Equality Summit, March 26-27
"We voted for change in November. Now let's make it happen!"
Foundation Accepting Grant Applications for Organizing Women
2007 deadline for organizations was March 15, 2007
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Welcome to our web site!
"We hope you will put your energies and our money into more and better union organizing, helping to bring the Union Advantage to women workers."
--Berger-Marks Foundation
Archived news on this page
- Yale New Haven Hospital Calls for New Union Election
- Wisconsin ‘Equal Pay Bill’ attacks wage gap between men & women
- Vermont bill would give state workers stronger right to organize
- 60,000 child care providers gain freedom to unionize in New York
- Top Federal analysts file for vote for IFPTE union
- Bill vs. pay discrimination approved by House Committee
- 2007 summer schools for union women
- Employee Free Choice Act introduced into Senate March 29
- Right to organize in trade pacts
- Organizing Institute offers training for '07
- Power Tools for modern media
- Community-wide campaigns needed to organize female workers
- Hundreds of organizers urged to read "Women Organizing Women" report
- AFL-CIO to create "stewards army," fight for workers' rights to free choice
- Nationwide rallies for right to organize
- News release for Women to Women report, 2005
- Welcome to the new web site of the Berger-Marks Foundation!
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