CLUW holds successful convention in Reno
About 500 delegates (as well as family members) attended the bi-annual convention of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) in Reno from November 20 to November 23, 2013. Union women from Chicago were, as usual, well represented at the event, and several leaders of the Chicago Teachers Union participated.
The Museum is the Mark Twain Museum. He ran a paper there in Virginia City.
The AFT Caucus was chaired by Connie Cordivilla, AFT Human Rights Director, Washington D.C. A Resolution was sponsored by Angelica Santomauro, of the NEA, Seattle, That the Aamerican Labor Museum in New Jersey be a landmark. Judy Beard, CLUW National Treasurer, sponsored a Resolution that CLUW support The Postal Protection Act 21013--S.316 in the Senate and H.B. 630 in the House. Connie Cordovilla,AFT, and Northern Virginia Chapter of CLUW, sponsored bills concerning "Reclaim the Promise of Public Education." Many of the Resolutions concerned health-care, work place equality and discrimination in the work place.
Finally newly elected President Connie Leaks, Detroit UAW, greeted members at the Gala, promising to work with all members in chapters from Coast to Coast. And seniors Bea Lumpkin, CTU retiree, and Georgina Simmons, AFSCME, danced the Electric Slide and other dances at the Gala with the young folks.
Speakers from CTU on issues at the microphones were this reporter (Lotty Blumenthal), Kristine Mayle and Debbie Pope.
By: Jean Schwab
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Next year I'll have to go- sounds interesting.