Tradeswomen Push for Union Jobs, Equal Pay at Oakland Conference
May 05, 2011By Robert Carlsen and Debra Rubin
Not content to see themselves locked at 2.5% of the national craft union workforce for the past 30 years, more than 625 tradeswomen gathered in Oakland last weekend to learn how to boost those numbers at the first national conference for women in the trades.
Photo by Vicki Hamlin, Tradeswomen Inc.
Photo by Vicki Hamlin, Tradeswomen Inc.
Sean McGarvey, national building trades’ secretary-treasurer
The meeting, co-sponsored by the AFL-CIO’s Building and Construction Trades Dept., included women craft workers from across the country and Canada. It was also the 10th annual Women Building California conference, which, according to conference organizers, never attracted this large an audience.
