WILD
Profile: Lillian Ford Feickert
Posted OnMarch 20, 2020 byIn partnership with the national AFL-CIO and historical societies, the New Jersey State AFL-CIO honors women who have made a significant impact in the labor, suffrage and women’s rights movements. We hope you meet them all. Today: Lillian Ford Feickert, who played a key role in an unsuccessful 1915 statewide referendum to gain voter approval…Read More
Profile: Elizabeth Almira Allen
Posted OnMarch 19, 2020 byIn partnership with the national AFL-CIO and historical societies, the New Jersey State AFL-CIO honors women who have made a significant impact in the labor, suffrage and women’s rights movements. We hope you meet them all. Today: Elizabeth Almira Allen, a teachers rights advocate, was the first woman president of the New Jersey Education Association.Read More
Profile: Juliet Clannon Cushing
Posted OnMarch 18, 2020 byIn partnership with the national AFL-CIO and historical societies, the New Jersey State AFL-CIO honors women who have made a significant impact in the labor, suffrage and women’s rights movements. We hope you meet them all. Today: Juliet Clannon Cushing, an advocate of protective labor legislation for women, who founded the Consumers’ League of New…Read More
Profile: Clara Barton
Posted OnMarch 16, 2020 byIn partnership with the national AFL-CIO and historical societies, the New Jersey State AFL-CIO honors women who have made a significant impact in the labor, suffrage and women’s rights movements. We hope you meet them all. Today: Clara Barton. An educator and humanitarian, Barton helped distribute needed supplies to the Union Army during the Civil…Read More
Profile: Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Posted OnMarch 13, 2020 byIn partnership with the national AFL-CIO and historical societies, the New Jersey State AFL-CIO honors women who have made a significant impact in the labor, suffrage and women’s rights movements. We hope you meet them all. Today: Antoinette Brown Blackwell of Somerville, who founded the New Jersey Woman’s Suffrage Association in 1869 with her sister-in-law,…Read More
Profile: Mary Yamashita Nagao
Posted OnMarch 11, 2020 byIn partnership with the national AFL-CIO and historical societies, the New Jersey State AFL-CIO honors women who have made a significant impact in the labor, suffrage and women’s rights movements. We hope you meet them all. Today: Mary Yamashita Nagao, a Japanese-American who was sent to an internment camp during World War II and, after…Read More
17th Annual WILD Conference canceled
Posted OnMarch 10, 2020 byWith New Jersey in a state of emergency declared by Gov. Phil Murphy, the New Jersey State AFL-CIO is canceling the Women In Leadership Development Conference originally scheduled for this weekend, Friday and Saturday, March 13 and 14, 2020. The health and well-being of all WILD sisters and brothers is the labor federation’s top priority….Read More
Profile: Frances Perkins
Posted OnMarch 10, 2020 byIn partnership with the national AFL-CIO and historical societies, the New Jersey State AFL-CIO honors women who have made a significant impact in the labor, suffrage and women’s rights movements. We hope you meet them all. Today: Frances Perkins, U.S. secretary of Labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the first woman to serve in…Read More
What you need to know about workplace harassment
Posted OnMarch 8, 2020 byThe New Jersey State AFL-CIO celebrates International Women’s Day and thanks our union sisters for their contributions to home, work, America and the world. Women truly are the future. To learn more about the AFL-CIO’s programs for workplace fairness and gender protection, please click here. [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”5″ display=”basic_thumbnail” thumbnail_crop=”0″]Read More
Profile: Mikie Sherrill
Posted OnMarch 6, 2020 byIn partnership with the national AFL-CIO and historical societies, the New Jersey State AFL-CIO honors women who have made a significant impact in the labor, suffrage and women’s rights movements. We hope you meet them all. Today: Mikie Sherrill. Representative Sherrill, a Naval Academy graduate and former Navy helicopter pilot, proudly serves New Jersey’s 11th…Read More