Submitted by Elizabeth Thompson
On March 8, to celebrate International Women’s Day, Vice President of USW Local 6129 Elizabeth Thompson hosted an event for some family and friends, including a couple of high school teachers from Union City, NJ. She and her daughter Daly fashioned their instruction with training they had taken at a Women in Leadership Development (WILD) conference.
The WILD conferences are designed to ensure that union women have every opportunity to be educated, develop leadership skills, and build diversity within the labor movement. Attendees at the meet and talk with national and state union leaders, organizers, educators, and authors, who share the challenges they face and their strategies for advocating for and organizing workers.
One teacher, Marlon Morales, was so impressed with WOS activities and how women can make a difference; he gathered some of the material to share with his class.
Thompson reported that International Women’s Day was a good day for all of them and for Women of Steel.
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