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🎄✨ This #Christmas, open the door to union learning!
Our #EducationFund is your gateway to world-class trade union education.
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Wow 🫨 in less than 3 weeks we have already fully booked our first Workplace Reps Stage 1 course by @gftuet.org.uk.
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Lorena Borjas (1960-2020) was a Mexican American trans and immigrant rights activist in Queens, NY. She helped trans women and sex workers survive human trafficking and deportation.
#PrideMonth #UnionEducation
Mary Kay Henry (1958-) is the first woman to serve as president of SEIU from 2010 to 2024. Under Henry's leadership, the Fight for $15 and a Union movement has won $15 an hour in 14 states and 40 more cities and counties.
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Cleve Jones (1954–) is an LGBTQ and AIDS activist. His NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt is the world’s largest piece of community folk art. He’s worked with UNITE HERE to direct LGBTQ tourists to hotels that respect workers’ rights.
#PrideMonth #UnionEducation
Mark Segal (1951-) is one of the original founders of the Gay Liberation Front and participated in the Stonewall uprising. Segal founded and served as president of the National Gay Newspaper Guild.
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Miriam Frank (1947-) is a retired NYU Professor of Humanities. She taught about contemporary labor and LGBTQ+ issues. Frank’s book “Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America” (2014) covers oral histories from LGBTQ union activists.
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Leslie Feinberg (1945-2014) was a trans activist who organized pro-labor rallies with the Workers World Party. Feinberg was the editor of the Political Prisoners page of Workers World newspaper for 15 years.
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Marsha P. Johnson (1945-1992) was a trans activist who fought for the rights of the LGBTQ community, sex workers, and people living with HIV/AIDS. Johnson, along with Sylvia Rivera, was on the frontlines of the Stonewall uprising in 1969.
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Ernestine Eckstein (1941-1992) was a political activist who fought against the government’s anti-LGBTQ discrimination in employment.
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📺Watch and share last week's #SolidaritySeries session, @jfcolombia.bsky.social, with Nick MacWilliam - www.youtube.com/watch?v=byYd...
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Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (1940–) is a trans activist who fought for trans and gender non-conforming communities. Once a sex worker, she later supported drag performers in the profession and set up street clinics for AIDS/HIV care.
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Howard Wallace (1936-2012) was a trade union activist who dedicated his life to advancing gay rights in the labor movement. He founded the Lesbian Gay Labor Alliance in the mid-1980s with Nancy Wohlforth.
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Harvey Milk (1930–1978) was California’s first openly gay elected official. He helped defeat Proposition 6, which aimed to fire school staff for being openly queer or supporting LGBTQ+ rights.
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Stephen R. Blair (1917-1997) was a union organizer and Army paramedic, discharged in 1936 for suspected homosexuality. He became a key LGBTQ+ labor voice as VP of the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union, an integrated union that welcomed Black and gay workers.
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Harry Hay (1912-2002) was a labor organizer and founded the Mattachine Society, one of the first gay political organizations in the U.S. He participated in the San Francisco General Strike of 1934.
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Bayard Rustin (1912-1987) was a civil rights activist and the first executive director of the AFL-CIO's A. Philip Randolph Institute. Rustin was the primary organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.
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Pauline Newman (1887-1986) began working at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company as a child. She was the first female general organizer of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU).
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Marie Equi (1872-1952) was a physician who devoted her life to providing medical care to working class and poor patients. She learned about labor issues through her patients and joined them at their actions. She was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World.
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Helen Marot (1865-1940) was a labor organizer and writer who was devoted to addressing child labor and improving the working conditions of women.
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June is Pride Month! 🏳️🌈 Celebrate with us by joining us every week day of this month at 4:00 pm PT to learn about an LGBTQ+ labor leader!
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Rebecca S. "Becky" Pringle (1955-) is President of the National Education Association, the nation’s largest labor union for educators. She was a middle school science teacher for three decades, dedicating her life to educational equity.
#WomensHistoryMonth #UnionEducation
April Verrett is our SEIU President and first ever Black president. April was previously Secretary-Treasurer of SEIU and President of SEIU Local 2015, California’s largest local union. She was raised by her grandmother, a Union Steward for SEIU Local 46.
#WomensHistoryMonth #UnionEducation
Liz Shuler (1970-) is the first woman elected to serve as President of the AFL-CIO. Shuler was previously the first woman and the youngest person to hold the position of Secretary-Treasurer, and also led the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW).
#WomensHistoryMonth #UnionEducation
Bonnie Castillo (1960-) is the executive director of National Nurses United since 2018. She spent 16 years at the California Nurses Association, working her way up to CNA/NNOC director of government relations and NNU director of health and safety.
#WomensHistoryMonth #UnionEducation
Rebecca S. "Becky" Pringle (1955-) is President of the National Education Association, the nation’s largest labor union for educators. She was a middle school science teacher for three decades, dedicating her life to educational equity.
#WomensHistoryMonth #UnionEducation
Dolores Huerta (1930-) is best known for organizing farmworkers & co-founding the United Farm Workers union alongside César Chávez. She coined the iconic phrase “Sí, se puede” (“Yes, we can”), which became a rallying cry for social justice movements.
#WomensHistoryMonth #UnionEducation
Addie L. Wyatt (1924-2012) began working in meatpacking in 1941, rising through the United Packinghouse Workers of America to become the first Black woman to hold a senior union office. She was inducted into the Labor Hall of Honor in 2012.
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