Today in Labor History: March 16
The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) is formed in New York to represent New York City public school teachers and, later, other education workers in the city – 1960
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Cool Labor Site: Tradeswomen, Inc.
Tradeswomen, Inc., California’s first organization for women in the trades, was founded in 1979 with three goals: recruit more women into building and construction trades, promote retention of women in the trades and develop tradeswomens’ capacity for leadership and career growth, on the job and in their unions. http://www.tradeswomen.org/