| 1974 |
| March
12-14th, Chicago, Il Founding conference elects Olga M.
Madar president, adopts four goals: organize the unorganized;
promote affirmative action; increase women's participation
in their unions; and increase women's participation in political
and legislative activities. |
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1975
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| First
Constitutional convention; first organization to move convention
from nonratified Equal Rights Amendment state (AFL-CIO endorses
ERA). Publishes Women and Health Security. |
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| 1976 |
| National
Convention; first Conference on Pay Equity. |
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1977
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| National
Convention; Joyce D. Miller elected president. CLUW joins
with other women's, civil rights and religious groups to
lobby for minimum wage increase; participates in Decade
of Women Conference. Publishes Commitment to Child Care. |
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| 1978 |
| National
Convention; Establishes CLUW Center for Education and Research. |
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Joyce D. Miller
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1979
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| National
Convention: A Woman's Place Is in Her Union. Publishes Absent
From the Agenda, a survey of women's representation
within the leadership of the labor movement; Effective
Contract Language for Union Women; and a CLUW Health
and Safety series. |
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| 1980 |
| First
Biennial National Convention. Joyce D. Miller, first woman
elected to AFL-CIO Executive Council. First National Conference
on Organizing the Unorganized. |
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1981
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| CLUW
participates in Solidarity Day. Publishes Lead: A New
Perspective on an Old Problem. |
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| 1982 |
| Second
Biennial National Convention: A Past of Progress...A Future
of Promise. Jointly sponsors Baltimore/Washington Women's
Organization. Publishes A Handbook for Empowerment of
Union Women. |
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1983
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| National
Conference on Working Women and Substance Abuse, second
National Conference on Organizing the Unorganized. Organizes
the Women's Vote Project (coalition of 38 national women's
organizations to registe/educate women voters). |
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| 1984 |
| Third
Biennial National Convention: Women in Unions: A Decade
of Progress...A Future of Growth; National Legislative Conference;
National Affirmative Action Conference. CLUW registers thousands
of women to vote. |
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1985
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| Three
National Conferences on Family and Work. Publishes Bargaining
for Child Care: A Union Parent's Guide. |
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| 1986 |
| Fourth
Biennial National Convention: Challenged by Our Past-Forging
Change for Our Future; first annual Working Women's Awareness
Week. Conferences on Older and Retired Women Workers, Minority
Women Workers. Sets up CLUW Sexual Harassment Hotline, files
brief to US Supreme Court on sexual harassment case (Vinson
V. Meritor Savings Bank). Participates in March for
Women's Lives. |
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1987
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| Third
National Conference on Organizing the Unorganized. |
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| 1988 |
| Fifth
Biennial National Convention: Today's Challenge, Tomorrow's
Change. National Conference on Legislation and Political
Action. Joint sponsorship of four regional Bargaining for
Our Families Conferences. Calls for a national family policy
with the American Family Celebration (56,000 union, civil,
religious and women's rights activists attend). Establishes
annual Hits & Ms. 's List-the Best and Worst for Working
Women. |
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1989
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| Three
regional Bargaining for Our Families Conferences. Obtains
funding for project to fight government intervention in
women's reproductive freedom, files brief in landmark case
on hazardous chemicals and reproductive health (UAW v.
Johnson Controls). |
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| 1990 |
| Conferences:
VDT's, Maquiladoras and Immigration, Women in Non-traditional
Jobs. Expands Reproductive Rights Project. Publishes
Women and Children First: An Analysis of Trends in Federal
Tax Policy. |
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1991
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| Sixth
Biennial National Convention: Decade of Empowerment-Union
Women on the Move. Conferences on Women and Retirement,
Women's Health, Fighting "isms". Participates
in Solidarity Day II. Publishes Bargaining for Family
Benefits: A Union Member's Guide and ls Your Job
Making You Sick? A CLUW Handbook on Health and Safety. |
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| 1992 |
| National
conferences on Sexual Harassment, Organizing the Unorganized,
Communicating With the Media, Political Action, Recruitment
and Communications, and Women and Economic Empowerment.
Participates in March for Women's Lives. |
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Gloria T. Johnson
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1993
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| Seventh
Biennial National Convention: CLUW: The Future...Challenge,
Change and Choice. Joyce D Miller resigns to serve as Executive
Director of Glass Ceiling Commission; Gloria T. Johnson
elected CLUW president and AFL-CIO Executive Council vice
president. Conference on Breaking the Glass Ceiling; joint
Women's Conference on National Health Care; participates
in National Conference on Women and participates in National
Conference on Women and Children. Charters chapters in Puerto
Rico and Virgin Islands. Moves CLUW convention from Denver
to protest the state's anti-gay referendum. Publishes Union
Women Speak Out on Health Care Issues Including Abortion,
Women Care About Health, Family Medical Leave Act Resource
Guide, and sexual harassment materials. |
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| 1994 |
| CLUW
celebrates 20th Anniversary. Conferences on Strategic Planning
for CLUW, National Health Care Reform, and Women in the
Global Economy. Conducts CLUW membership survey, participate
in DOL Women's Bureau "Working Women Count" survey.
Testifies before Dunlop Commission on Labor Law Reform.
Protests NAFTA, GATT and sweatshops ("Come Shop
With Me Campaign. Publishes Shaping the Agenda: Women
and Unions Moving Towards the 21st Century (update of
Absent From the Agenda). |
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1995
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| Eighth
Biennial National Convention: "Union Women: Power/Politics/Participation."
Conferences on Surviving and Thriving as a Labor Union Woman:
1995 and Beyond; Women and HIVIAIDS; Young Women Workers:
Solidarity Across the Generations; joint conferences on
Campaign Skills Building; Workplace 2000: Women's Rights,
Workers' Rights, Strengthening Women's Voices in the Workplace.
Participates in March for Women's Lives; 75th Anniversary
of the 19th Amendment march/rally; Affirmative Action rally.
Sponsors affirmative action "Call-in Day," and
"Write-in" to UN protesting human rights violations
in China. Publishes Affirmative Action: Dispelling the
Myths. |
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| 1996 |
| Conferences:
Voter Education and Participation, Organizing and Political
Action, Union Women for Political Empowerment, '96 Get Out
the Vote. Joint conference on Full Participation. Other
joint campaigns/activities: Come Shop With Me; Stop Sweatshops!;
Child Labor Coalition initiative; March to Fight the Right;
Stand for Children Rally; America Needs a Raise Town Hall
meetings/Labor '96 events; National AIDS Quilt Display;
Women's Vote Project: Operation Big Vote; DOL Women's Bureau
75th Anniversary; survey/report on Mid-life and Older Union
Women Talking About Health Care. President Johnson appointed
to head AFL-CIO Standing Committee on Women's Issues. Publishes
CLUW Leadership Directory. |
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1997
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| Ninth
Biennial National Convention: "Women: Labor's Future,"
features Women's Health Fair and Young Women Workers Forum.
Conferences on Building the Labor Movement Through CLUW
Chapter Actions, and Unionizing Technology; and jointly,
HIV/AIDS. Events/campaigns: Strawberry Workers march/rally/boycott;
UPS strike; CLUW Back-to-School Teamsters Project. Participates
in "Ask a Working Woman" survey and conferences. |
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| 1998 |
| Conferences:
Developing Strategies for Implementing CLUW's Goals, Working
to end Violence Against Women: Union Strategies for Action,
Taking Charge of Our Health, and Common Sense Economics
for Working Families. Participates in AFL-CIO's Full Participation
Conference, the 150th Anniversary of the first women's rights
conference in Seneca Falls, NY, Equal Pay Day, and Union
Women Vote '98. Gave 10 CLUW Labor Education Scholarships
to members pursuing labor studies. Launched national recruitment
campaign: "2000 New Members by 2000." |
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1999
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| Celebration
of CLUW's 25th Anniversary at the Tenth Biennial National
Convention in Chicago, IL where CLUW was born. Convention
theme: "We didn't come to swap recipes-not then,
1974 not now, 1999." |
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