Live from Labor Notes (3): The Next Generation of Labor Women

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)One works to support day laborers. Another grew up walking picket lines with her mother. A third is a teacher at a school in Madison, WI. In all, they were ten young women -- students, organizers, teachers and activists -- who were able to attend the Labor Notes conference this weekend in Chicago thanks to a grant from the Berger-Marks Foundation. The group took a few minutes out of the hubbub of conference Saturday morning to meet with Labor Notes' Jane Slaughter and the Berger-Marks Foundation's Carolyn Jacobsen. Slaughter called them "our future" and Jacobsen told them about the Berger-Marks Foundation's funding of young women in the labor movement (Grants to Support Women in Labor Movement 2/24/2012 UC) and encouraged them to seek grants for their projects in the future. Slaughter gave them all a free copy of "Democracy is Power" and "Stopping Sexual Harassment." As the next generation of labor women headed back out into the conference, Slaughter and Jacobsen smiled happily at each other.