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News Article | February 27, 2008
APWU Continues the ‘Family’ Tradition
The Fort Wayne Area Local’s organizing drive last year yielded 135 new members.Organizing Committee Co-Chair Amy Sutcliffe, left, and Stephanie DeBolt prepare a bulk mailing during the campaign. In 2007, when the APWU launched a Women’s Organizing Campaign, the results were outstanding: Approximate...
News Article | July 13, 2007
2007 Organizing Campaign Special Drawing Winners Announced
More than a dozen new APWU members are finding out that it really does pay to join the union. Organization Department Director Frank A. Romero announced today the winners of a special drawing that awarded prizes to a sampling of the thousands of new members who have joined the APWU so far this year...
News Article | May 7, 2007
Women’s Organizing Campaign Grows
Support for the Women’s Organizing Campaign is growing, with 89 locals and 17 state organizations participating, said Liz Powell, chairperson of the APWU subcommittee that is coordinating the drive. Because of new interest in the campaign, the deadline for submitting membership applications for a sp...
News Article | April 4, 2007
Equal Pay Day Arrives April 24
On Tuesday, April 24, 2007, working women across the country will mark Equal Pay Day — the day when women’s wages will finally catch up to what men earned in 2006. “Women have come a long way, but are still waiting for equal pay,” said Dr. Heidi Hartmann, an economist at the Institute for Women’s Po...
News Article | March 14, 2007
Women’s Organizing Campaign Takes Shape
T-shirts, balloons, buttons, stickers, and brochures are included in the organizing kits. The APWU Women’s Organizing Campaign is taking shape, with organizing kits mailed to 58 locals across the country. The packets include buttons, stickers, balloons, flyers, brochures, T-shirts, and, of course, t...
News Article | February 26, 2007
‘A Woman’s Place is in Her Union’
The APWU has unveiled an ambitious union organizing campaign directed at women, scheduled to begin in March, Women’s History Month. The campaign will urge women officers and activists to reach out to female non-members and ask them to join the APWU. The campaign is being coordinated by a committee c...