Overtime (was Re: happy autoworkers)

[SsarahT at aol.com]

Among other things, Maggie Coleman wrote of the general tendency of the AFL-
CIO not to address working women's issues and its failure to organize clerical
workers.

My limited experience in the Seattle area is a bit different. District
925/SEIU recently landed a grant of something like $400,000 to conduct a city-
wide organizing drive of child-care workers here. It's a dynamic campaign.
AFL-CIO vice president Rich Trumka came here spoke at a highly publicized
child-care rally on 5/1/98 (to my delight he even mentioned gay & lesbian
workers in a favorable way... at a child-care rally!).

At least four unions here have high density of clerical workers-- d925/SEIU,
OPEIU 8, IFPTE 17, and AFSCME.

--- Sarah Luthens  <ssaraht at aol.com>