CLUW Lunch Spotlights Brown & Martin

Thursday, May 3, 2007

The spotlight will be on the work and leadership of two area labor women -- Clayola Brown and Teresa Martin – at Sunday’s Metro DC Chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) Gloria Johnson Awards Luncheon. Brown and Martin have “worked unselfishly for the benefit of others and embody the goals of CLUW,” says Brenda Savoy, DC CLUW Chapter President. Clayola Brown’s involvement in the labor movement began as a sewing machine operator and organizer at the Manhattan Shirt factory plant in Charleston, SC. Brown has also worked for UNITE HERE since 1970 and is the current national president of the A. Philip Randolph Institute. Teresa Martin has been an active member of UAW local 1247 since joining the union in 1999, and now serves as the president of the Central Maryland Labor Council, elected the Council’s first female president in 2006. The awards are named after Gloria Johnson, the first recipient of the award. Johnson was a founding member of CLUW and President of National CLUW from 1993 to 2004. She has also served as a Vice President of the AFL-CIO, the second African-American woman to attain such a position.

 

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