Executive Council Statement
It’s Our Time: An Economic Agenda for Working Women and Our Families
… the collective bargaining rights of all working people. Unions must focus on organizing and providing leadership, apprenticeship and mentoring opportunities, and training for women, focusing especially on young women, women of color and … laws against discrimination in hiring, pay and promotion. Support for prevailing wage laws, project labor agreements and apprenticeship programs for women contribute to the lowest wage gap in any industry. Women construction workers, on average, …