Repost: Tradeswomen Push for Union Jobs, Equal Pay at Oakland Conference

Tradeswomen Push for Union Jobs, Equal Pay at Oakland Conference

May 05, 2011


By 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.

Fwd: TODAY! women in construction trades forum/2:30 pm

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From: "Christa Kelleher" <Christa.Kelleher@umb.edu>
Date: Apr 20, 2011 9:05 AM
Subject: TODAY! women in construction trades forum/2:30 pm
To: <christakel@verizon.net>

Please join us at our Women's Research Forum

featuring the release of

UNFINISHED BUSINESS: Building Equality for Women in the Construction Trades

Wednesday, 20 April 2011, 2:30-4:30 pm

UMass Boston, Chancellor's Conference Room (Quinn Administration Building, 3rd floor)

Participate in the public release event for a new report examining what it will take to achieve gender equality in an industry on the rebound. Join report authors Susan Moir, Director of UMass Boston's Labor Resource Center, and Meryl Thomson, Center for Women in Politics & Public Policy, as they consider the barriers and opportunities for women in the construction trades. Following the presentation, Rebekah Lashman, Senior Vice President of Commonwealth Corporation, Patti Boyer, Jobs Bank Coordinator for the Boston Residents Jobs Policy Office, and Elizabeth Skidmore, Assistant to the General President on Women's Issues, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, will participate in a moderated discussion.

sponsored by the Labor Resource Center, New England Regional Council of Carpenters, Office of the Chancellor, Department of Women's Studies, and Policy Group on Tradeswomen's Issues

TO RSVP

For more information, call 617.287.5541.

Anyone requiring disability-related accommodations, including dietary accommodations, should visit www.ada.umb.edu.

Christa Kelleher, PhD

Research Director

Center for Women in Politics & Public Policy

McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies

University of Massachusetts Boston

100 Morrissey Boulevard

Boston, MA 02125-3393

617.287.5530

CWPPP website

Reminder: Unfinished Business: Building Equality for Women in the Construction Trades 4.20.2011 2:30 - 4:30pm

You've marked your calendars, now spread the word!!

http://www.mccormack.umb.edu/centers/cwppp/WomeninConstructionTrades.php

Unfinished Business:

Building Equality for Women in the Construction Trades

30th Women's Research Forum

Why has there been so little progress for women in the construction industry? What keeps women at under 3% of the construction workforce? How can women be assured access to high-paying jobs in the trades? Participate in the public release event for a new report examining what it will take to achieve gender equality in an industry on the rebound.

Join report authors Susan Moir, Director of UMass Boston's Labor Resource Center, and Meryl Thomson, Researcher, Center for Women in Politics & Public Policy, as they consider the barriers and opportunities for women in the construction trades.

Date:	Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Time:	2:30pm-4:30pm
Location:	Chancellor's Conference Room
	UMass Boston
	Quinn Administration Bldg., 3rd floor

RSVP.

All are welcome. Refreshments provided. Anyone requiring disability-related accommodations, including dietary accommodations, should visitwww.ada.umb.edu before April 14, 2011.

Event sponsored by:

Labor Resource Center, New England Regional Council of Carpenters, and Department of Women's Studies