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UNION NEWS
Women and unions, 2002
By Lotty Blumenthal
 In honor of International
Women’s Day, the Chicago Chapter of CLUW will hold its annual dinner
at the Drury Lane Restaurant on Sunday March 3, 2002 at 6:30 p.m. The
Florence Crilly Award for a woman who has contributed much to the women’s
movement will be awarded that evening.
The CTU will award
the Margaret Burrough’s Award at the delegates meeting in March.
Delegates received a form which had to be turned into the Women’s
Rights Committee by Feb. 22 with nominations for a teacher who has helped
educate others in women’s rights areas.
The Women’s History
Project is sponsoring its 5th annual GALA dinner on March 14, 2002, at
Roosevelt University at 7:00 p.m. The keynote speaker will be Margaret
Blackshere, President, Illinois AFL-CIO. She is the first woman to be
president in Illinois. The dinner will honor Yolanda “Bobby”
Hall who is receiving the Mother Jones Award. A dramatic performance will
provide entertainment. For tickets or more information call Sue Straus,
Secretary, at 773-472-2585 or mail to her at 3161 N. Cambridge #209, Chi.
IL. 60657. Discounted for first sales of the new book “Working Without
Uniforms, The History of School Nursing” will be available.
Another recently released
book is “Women Building Chicago 1790-1990” edited by Rima Lunin
Schultz and Adele Hast from Indiana University Press. A reference book
of 423 biographies of Chicago Women who helped the city grow, the book
took ten years for 350 contributors to write the biographical entries.
For more information call 1800 842-6796, or fax 1 812 855-7931 or iupress@indiana.edu.
On March 5, 2002 women
from various unions are donating their time to protesting with union members
from Equity and the Musicians unions in front of the Chicago Theater at
6:15 p.m. at State and Lake because of the NON-UNION production of the
MUSIC MAN. Leaflets will be passed out at the site.
Women are supporting
the 22 year reunion on March 27, 2002 of the Rally for Jobs of the Wisconsin
Steelworkers at 9350 South Chicago Ave. For $3.00 there will be refreshments
and music. A speaker will talk on prescription drug benefits. The event
will be from 4-6:30 p.m. More information can be found at 773-374-6686
or 773-684-4553.
In addition, there
will be an educational rally which will include women’s issues on
March 10, Sunday from 4 to 6, in the western suburbs at a hotel ballroom.
For more information call Betty Davis at 1-312-566 0202.
The AFT’s Women’s
Issues Conference is called “WOMAN POWER” and will be held in
Washington D.C. on March 8-10, 2002. It will include Exhibits, a Resource
Center, AFT President Sandra Feldman as speaker at the first plenary session,
workshops, a Saturday luncheon and Sunday Breakfast Buffet and door prize
drawing. For registration or/ and hotel information call Connie Cordovilla’s
office at 1-800-238-1133, ex.4434 or fax 1-202-393-8648.
Remember, Jackie Vaughn
believed “A woman’s place is in her union!”
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