AFSCME Women's Rights

(7501) Pay equity strike, San Jose, CA

jruss — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:04:33 -0400

Members of AFSCME Local 101 in San Jose, CA struck for pay equity for women in 1981, the first strike of its kind in the nation. Local 101 had already urged the city government to conduct a pay equity study which revealed sharp disparities in men’s and women’s pay for equally valuable work. The strike succeeded in the city agreeing to remedy this gap.

(7502) Pay equity strike, San Jose, CA

jruss — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:07:56 -0400

(7519) St. Joseph Hospital Employees rally for equal pay

jruss — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:25:27 -0400

AFSCME Local 659 St. Joseph Hospital Employees in Jefferson City, Missouri rally for equal pay in 1969.

(11688) Interim Committee on Sex Discrimination

jruss — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:43:00 -0500

AFSCME President Jerry Wurf addresses a meeting of the union’s Interim Committee on Sex Discrimination in October 1972.

(11689) Interim Committee on Sex Discrimination

jruss — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:50:23 -0500

AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer William Lucy addresses a 1973 meeting of the Interim Committee on Sex Discrimination in Washington, D.C.

(11690) Health Rally for Women

jruss — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:58:36 -0500

Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski speaks at the Women's Leadership Rally on National Health Insurance in Washington, D.C. March 9-10, 1976.

(11692) Women's Leadership Rally

jruss — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:11:02 -0500

Illinois Congressman Dan Rostenkowski speaks at the 1976 Women’s Leadership Rally on National Health insurance.

(11693) Women's Leadership Rally

jruss — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:16:57 -0500

Edith Barksdale Sloan, Director of Consumer Affairs for Washington, D.C., speaks at the Women’s Leadership Rally on National Health Insurance.

(11694) Women's Leadership Rally

jruss — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:33:17 -0500

AFSCME members from New York attended the Women’s Leadership Rally at National Health Insurance Conference. They were joined by UAW leader Olga Madar (front right) and CLUW leader Gloria Johnson (standing, third from right).

(11695) Women's Leadership Rally

jruss — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:37:01 -0500

An AFSCME member from New York looks over the program for the Women’s Leadership Rally on National Health Insurance. This image appeared in the April 1976 issue of AFSCME's Public Employee magazine.

(11696) Equal Rights Amendment Extension March

jruss — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:17:19 -0500

AFSCME participated in the 1978 march on Washington organized by the National Organization of Women (NOW) to advocate for an extension of the deadline by which states had to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. constitution which sought to bar legal discrimination on the basis of sex. 100,000 supporters marched, and the deadline was extended by 3 years.

(11697) Equal Rights Amendment Extension March

jruss — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:20:56 -0500

(11698) Equal Rights Amendment March

jruss — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:30:59 -0500

AFSCME participated in a 1977 march on Washington to advocate for the Equal Rights Amendment.

(11699) Equal Rights Amendment March

jruss — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:34:51 -0500

AFSCME participated in a 1977 march on Washington to advocate for the Equal Rights Amendment.

(11700) Equal Rights Amendment March

jruss — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:37:42 -0500

AFSCME participated in a 1977 march on Washington to advocate for the Equal Rights Amendment.

(11701) Equal Rights Amendment March

jruss — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:40:51 -0500

AFSCME participated in a 1977 march on Washington to advocate for the Equal Rights Amendment.

(11702) Women's Rights Committee

jruss — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:53:55 -0500

The AFSCME Women’s Rights Committee met in October 1979.

(11703) Women's Rights Committee

jruss — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:02:39 -0500

The AFSCME Women’s Rights Committee met in October 1979. Seated on the right side of the table, from right: Council 1707 President Bettye Roberts; Local 420 Chairperson Selma O’Neill; Council 28 Secretary-Treasurer Alice Kemmerick; Local 2463 Executive Board member Doris Morris; Local 1549 Shop Steward-Delegate Teri Washington; CSEA Secretary Irene Carr; Council 94 Executive Director Giovanni Folcarelli; Local 2548 President Doris Green; and Council 20 Director Geraldine Boykin.

(11704) Women's Regional Conference

jruss — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:09:25 -0500

Eve Johnson, an AFSCME Women’s Rights Committee leader addresses the Women’s Regional Conference in Milwaukee in June 1979.

(11705) Women's Regional Conference

jruss — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:21:08 -0500

Georgia McGhee, an AFSCME Women’s Rights Committee leader, speaks at the May 1979 Women’s Regional Conference in Washington, D.C.

(11706) Women's Regional Conference

jruss — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:24:27 -0500

AFSCME members participate in a workshop at the Women’s Regional Conference in Milwaukee in June 1979.

(11707) Women's Regional Conference

jruss — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:16:08 -0500

AFSCME President Jerry Wurf (left) lunches with participants at the Regional Women’s Conference in Milwaukee in June 1979.

(11708) Women's Regional Conference

jruss — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:20:50 -0500

AFSCME President Jerry Wurf speaks at the Women’s Regional Conference in Milwaukee in June 1979.

(11709) Women's Conference

jruss — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:37:52 -0500

AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Bill Lucy speaks at the Women’s Conference in Boston in June 1979.

(11710) Women's Advisory Committee

jruss — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:48:43 -0500

AFSCME Women’s Advisory Committee member Louise DeBow (Council 37, New York) thanks Committee Chair and International Vice President Georgia McGhee (standing left) for her contributions to the four regional conferences. Other committee members stand left to right: Carol Dimmock (Council 4, Connecticut), Irene Carr (CSEA, New York), Pat Taylor (CSEA, New York), Kay Dimond (Council 13, Pennsylvania), Bettye Roberts (Council 1707, New York), and Betty McLeod (Local 3178, Florida). Secretary-Treasurer Bill Lucy is seated at left. This image appeared in the February 1984 issue of AFSCME's Public Employee magazine.

(12081) Pay equity strike, San Jose

jruss — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:24:17 -0400

AFSCME Local 101 members picket San Jose City Hall for pay equity. In July 1981, Local 101 won its campaign, the first ever successful comparable worth strike in the United States.

(12103) McEntee at CLUW

jruss — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:17:54 -0400

AFSCME President Gerald McEntee speaks at the tenth anniversary conference of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) in Chicago.

(12109) Women's Advisory Committee

jruss — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:17:56 -0400

AFSCME President Gerald McEntee speaks with Women’s Advisory Committee Chair Irene Carr at the October 1985 Women’s Conference. AFSCME International Vice President Faye Krohn (center) speaks to another person in the background. This image appeared in the November 1985 issue of AFSCME's Public Employee magazine.

(12522) AFSCME Interim Committee on Sex Discrimination, 1973

scaloia — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 15:10:27 -0400

Members of AFSCME's Interim Committee on Sex Discrimination meet in November 1973.
Left to right: Dorothy Beck, Montana Local 1620; Pat McDaniel, president of Maryland Local
422; and Lillian Bates, president of Illinois Local 1610. This image appeared in the November 1973 issue of AFSCME's Public Employee magazine.

(12523) AFSCME Interim Committee on Sex Discrimination, 1973

scaloia — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 15:31:07 -0400

AFSCME’s Interim Committee on Sex Discrimination members at a meeting in November 1973.

(26841) Council 13 Women's Conference

jruss — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:04:55 -0400

Gerald McEntee, Executive Director of Pennsylvania Council 13, speaks at Council 13's Women's Conference.

(27941) Equal Rights Amendment rally

jruss — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:56:12 -0500

AFSCME members participate in a 1982 rally to reintroduce the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) which would amend the constitution to protect people from discrimination on the basis of sex.

(27942) Equal Rights Amendment rally

jruss — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:57:21 -0500

Senator Ted Kennedy speaks in favor of the passing the Equal Rights Amendment at a rally to reintroduce the ERA.

(27943) Equal Rights Amendment rally

jruss — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:58:29 -0500

AFSCME President Gerald McEntee speaks at a 1982 rally in Tallahassee in support of the Equal Rights Amendment.

(27944) Equal Rights Amendment rally

jruss — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:59:35 -0500

A congressional delegation representing the 257 co-sponsors of the resolution reintroducing the Equal Rights Amendment holds a banner with the amendment’s text printed on it at a 1982 ERA rally.

(27946) Equal Rights Amendment rally

jruss — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:02:30 -0500

AFSCME members rally in support of the ERA in Tallahassee in 1982.