With Vonetta Rhodes, WNY Childcare Action Team Leadership Representative, and mom; Maureen Milligan, Research Administrator at UB, Co-Chair of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee of her union (United University Professions); Deidra EmEl, WNYPC Executive Director, and mom; and Vicki Ross, WNYPC Community Coordinator.
Discussion:
- Values we bring
- What are childcare needs?
- What’s happening with current childcare legislation?
- What needs does it fill (and how)? What needs doesn’t it fill?
- How can we support quality childcare? (e.g., union organizing at UB)
- Ways people can get involved, and help promote the childcare we need
The Women and Oppressed Gender Caucus of Workers World Party is proud to host the “Global Solidarity with Women and Gender Oppressed Workers” webinar.
The panel, discussing struggles and how they relate to an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist perspective, will include:
- Norma Pérez from A Call to Action on Puerto Rico and a former teacher
- Kisha James, a leader of the United American Indians of New England and a member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag/Oglala Lakota tribal nations
- Marie Kelly, a registered nurse and an at-large member of National Nurses United
This webinar is dedicated to women workers who are organizing everywhere from India to Haiti to right here in the belly of the beast, the U.S., like the Memphis 7, mainly Black and Brown women workers fired for attempting to organize a Starbucks union at their work place in Tennessee.
Join us for this exciting discussion where you can also bring your questions. The panel will be co-facilitated by mYia X, a member of the Disability Justice and Rights Caucus and Ted Kelly, a member of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer+ Caucus.
k before International Working Women’s Day, 1199SEIU, one of the country’s largest unions fighting for racial equality, announced “historic” settlement for their home care workers, many of whom worked many years of 24-hour shifts and were cheated of their pay. Though bringing $30 million to 120,000 workers, the settlement actually lets employers get away with paying only 0.5% of the total wages ($6 billion) owed. Despite its progressive branding and positive media coverage, the union’s decision suggests that immigrant women workers should feel grateful for crumbs and actually perpetrates the sexist and racist trope of women of color willing to work inhumane 24-hour shifts. This PKIWLC event, joined by Professor Shirley Lung of CUNY School of Law, the Ain’t I a Woman?! Campaign, and Women Against Racist Violence, will look at this on-the-ground case study and the workers’ response, and invite all to discuss: what is the state of the labor movement and women’s rights today? At a historic high, or a historic low?
