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Equal Pay rally Thanks for visiting the Coalition of Labor Union Women. CLUW is the national women's organization within the labor movement. Our members are on the frontline, empowering working women to become leaders in their unions and encouraging them to make a difference on the job and, most importantly, in their own lives. Our values are simple: Solidarity, involvement, dignity and justice. DOWNLOAD BROCHURE.

CLUW wants YOU !
More Members, More Power, More Progress

Amplify the voice of women in the workforce by strengthening CLUW, the only national organization for union women. Both nationally and through our chapters, CLUW has been busy lobbying the government, educating the public and rallying our sisters and brothers in the workforce over such issues as equal pay, Social Security protection and the Employee Free Choice Act. We have built partnerships with other constituency and community groups through town hall meetings held throughout the country. We have participated in GOTV activities. We have rallied for a peaceful solution to the war in Iraq. We have worked to protect women's health through our Cervical Cancer Prevention Works project and have educated our union brothers and sisters about the need for contraceptive equity.

We continue to fight for the original goals we established back in 1974: promoting affirmative action in the workplace; strengthening the role of women in unions; organizing unorganized women; and increasing the involvement of women in the political and legislative process.

Help us make a difference for working women. Sign up today or renew your CLUW membership online.

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Welcome to CLUW's newest chapters: the Mile-High Chapter in Denver, CO and the Northern Virginia Chapter.
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AFL-CIO Facts about Working Women

Find out about CLUW's program to prevent cervical cancer, Cervical Cancer Prevention Works

Download article for magazines, web:
Preventing Cervical Cancer: Two Union Women Take Action

CLUW's Contraceptive Equity Project

The Berger-Marks Foundation's mission is to bring the benefits of unionism to working women and provide resources, training, and financial assistance to women organizers. Its website offers the latest news – updated regularly – including tips, tactics, legal issues, events, a multitude of resources, and effective strategies women organizers use. Grants are available to support organizing efforts and related activities.

California State Conference and Founders Awards
"NOT FOR THEMSELVES ALONE" 
Commemorating Women's Equality Day
SAVE THE DATE: August 27 and 28
   
IBEW Electrical Training Institute, 6023 S. Garfield Ave, Commerce CA 90040
Dinner 6:30pm-9:30pm on Friday, Aug. 27
Conference 10am-4pm (Continental Breakfast 9am) on Saturday, Aug. 28
Special Guest Appearance: Mary Burkin as Susan B Anthony 
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Dinner and Conference $100; Conference Only $35; Dinner Only $100. 
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Female Candidates Vow to Turn Things Around

Read about the June National Executive Board meeting
and part 2 of CLUW’s Leadership Development Academy


STRENGTHEN SOCIAL SECURITY

CLUW's Mature Women's Committee is participating in the Coalition to Strengthen Social Security. The campaign has two major goals: to block efforts to reduce the deficit by cutting Social Security, and to eventually enact Social Security reform that would improve benefits.
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Turn Up the Heat In August
for Paycheck Fairness

The House of Representatives passed the Paycheck Fairness Act a year and a half ago and now we are calling on the Senate to bring it to a vote and pass it before the August recess.
We are turning up the heat to make that happen!
DOWNLOAD THIS CALENDAR for ideas on WHAT YOU CAN DO

TELL THE SENATE: Pass the Paycheck Fairness Act

New health insurance reforms will benefit women

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which President Obama signed into law on March 30, will prohibit insurance companies from: denying coverage to any woman because of a pre-existing condition; excluding coverage of certain conditions; or discriminating because of her gender. The law will also give women and their families the affordable health choices they need and access to critical preventive services.
Download fact sheet (pdf):
Health Reform for American Women: The Affordable Care Act Gives Women Greater Control Over Their Own Health Care

For Air and Rail workers, new rule means democracy at last

A new rule issued by the National Mediation Board (NMB) means airline and rail workers will now be able to choose whether to join a union under rules that are more fair and more in line with democratic principles. For decades, the deck has been stacked against workers covered under the Rail Labor Act (RLA) because every worker who did not cast a vote in a representation election was automatically counted as a "No" vote. The new NMB rule says that an election's outcome will be decided by the majority of votes cast, just like every other election. More

She Should Run

Tell a union woman:
Run for political office!

CLUW is partnering with the Women's Campaign Forum to encourage union women to run for political office. Its She Should Run website provides an online tool for talented women leaders to be asked to run for public office, and follows up with resources and assistance.

Linda Chavez-Thompson

Labor leader to run for Texas lieutenant governor

AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Emerita Linda Chavez-Thompson will be the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor of Texas. In 2005 CLUW honored Chavez-Thompson for her lifetime commitment to the labor movement. One of CLUW's goals is encouraging union women to get involved politically and to run for office. CLUW offers our labor sister -- a tireless advocate for civil, human, women’s and worker rights -- our full support as she seeks this office.

CLUW's 1st Annual Working Women's Award Celebration
March 18, 2010 in honor of Women's History Month
CLUW saluted 11 women leaders whose achievements have inspired us to strive for greater advancement in our workplace, union and community.
View presentation about the honorees (pdf)
AFL-CIOIt's time to restore workers' freedom to form unions!

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CLUW's video
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"Employee Free Choice
Is What We Really Need"

EFCA video

About the Employee Free Choice Act

CLUW Fact Sheets (pdf):

CLUW is proud to join with the Sister Study, a national study to learn how environment and genes affect the chances of getting breast cancer.

>> Learn more: www.sisterstudy.org

CLUW's Barbara Barnes, who lost her sister to breast cancer, is participating in the Sister Study. Read her story.

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