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Union Designates Women’s History Month
As Launching Point for
Organizing Campaign
APWU
Web News Article #024-09, March 2, 2009
The APWU is kicking off its 2009 organizing campaign in March, once again to coincide with the nationally commemorated Women’s History Month.
“Whereas women have played and continue to play a critical role in the labor movement,” a Feb. 27 union proclamation [PDF] states, and “whereas women have played a unique and powerful role in the American Postal Workers Union … the union designates March to launch the next phase of its campaign to organize women postal workers.”
The proclamation from APWU President William Burrus “calls upon union officers, activists, and members to engage in appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities to accomplish this great undertaking.”
As it was last year, the organizing campaign’s theme is “A Woman’s Place Is in Her Union.”
“We conducted successful women-themed organizing efforts the last two years,” said Liz Powell, Northeast Regional Coordinator and a leader of the women’s campaign. “It’s only right that we expand on our success. As the proclamation notes, women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements, activists and leaders in the abolitionist movement, emancipation, the civil rights movement, the peace movement.”
