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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
Profile: Virginia Apgar
Posted OnMarch 5, 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: Dr. Virginia Apgar. The New Jersey native is to thank for the post-birth assessment that’s saved countless newborn…Read More
Profile: Dolores Huerta
Posted OnMarch 4, 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: Dolores Huerta. After meeting César Chávez, the two founded the National Farm Workers Association, the predecessor to the…Read More
Profile: Leonora Barry
Posted OnMarch 3, 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: Leonora Barry. As the first woman paid to be a labor investigator, she rose to high levels in…Read More
State AFL-CIO’s Brennan praises AFSCME’s WOW Committee
Posted OnMarch 2, 2020 by[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”4″ display=”basic_thumbnail” thumbnail_crop=”0″]“Unions need women, and women need unions,” New Jersey State AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Laurel Brennan said to union sisters at the inaugural AFSCME New Jersey Council 63 WOW – Women Organizing Women – Committee Brunch on Saturday. Feb. 29, 2020. “The greatest equalizer for women is a union contract,” Brennan continued. Brennan…Read More
Profile: Ai-jen Poo
Posted OnMarch 2, 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: Ai-jen Poo, who has been recognized among Fortune’s 50 World’s Greatest Leaders and Time’s 100 Most Influential People…Read More
Profile: Sojourner Truth
Posted OnFebruary 28, 2020 byIn partnership with the national AFL-CIO and historical societies, the New Jersey State AFL-CIO honors African Americans who have made a significant impact in the labor and civil rights movements. We hope you meet them all. Today: Sojourner Truth, who was born into slavery but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. She…Read More
Profile: Sue Cowan Williams
Posted OnFebruary 27, 2020 byIn partnership with the national AFL-CIO and historical societies, the New Jersey State AFL-CIO honors African Americans who have made a significant impact in the labor and civil rights movements. We hope you meet them all. Today: Sue Cowan Williams, whose lawsuit in Arkansas eventually ended race-based pay scales for teachers.Read More
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Posted OnFebruary 14, 2020 byProfile: Bonnie Watson Coleman
Posted OnFebruary 7, 2020 byIn partnership with the national AFL-CIO and historical societies, the New Jersey State AFL-CIO honors African Americans who have made a significant impact in the labor and civil rights movements. We hope you meet them all. Today: Bonnie Watson Coleman, the first African American woman to represent New Jersey in Congress. Watson Coleman is passionate…Read More