“Taking a man’s job”: Video tells story about gender and workplace
The first journeywoman cable splicer in the Midwest for AT&T speaks out about gender discrimination.
Chicagoans win paid sick leave law
A coalition of workers' rights and progressive groups pushed the ordinance through the council, over the usual business opposition.
The labor movement won't survive if it doesn't help Black women to thrive
Black women and girls are the future of labor, but they can't become leaders unless the unions have their backs.
Tiffany Dena Loftin: Vision, solutions will strengthen labor movement
The head of the AFL-CIO's Civil, Human, and Women's Rights Division tackles some of labor's thorniest issues on a daily basis.
Beyoncé sweatshop controversy shines spotlight on harsh conditions of working women
UK-based press reports that Sri Lankan workers who make Beyoncé's new clothing line are being exploited. Now what?
Lilly Ledbetter tells union women about ongoing struggle for equal pay
Despite some gains in recent years, women still face a tough road to equal pay.
Suffering the insufferable because of economic insecurity: Women in the economy
A large number of presenters addressed several aspects of the crisis of women's work today.
This week in women’s history: Militant furriers strike successfully in 1926
Some 10,000 women workers in the needle trades, mostly Jewish and Italian, took to the New York City streets to demand higher wages.
Labor Spotlight: "My work speaks louder than other peoples' opinions do."
An interview with Theresa King, the first woman ever to be elected as President of the Florida Building and Construction Trades.
The "Right-to-Work" movement's attack on women workers
If strong public sector union jobs are eroded as a result of the right-to-work movement's attack, this will be an added setback for women's economic status in the U.S.
