DC Constituency Groups Organize

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

Members of area chapters of AFL-CIO constituency groups met last Saturday in their first-ever joint meeting. Sixteen local activists from the Coalition of Labor Union Women, the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and the A. Phillip Randolph Institute met at CWA headquarters to get acquainted and to discuss the new rule changes from last year’s AFL CIO convention. The new rules allow national, state and local chapters of the constituency groups to affiliate with state federations and local central labor councils, to help strengthen constituency groups around the country. Pat Ford of the Metro Washington Council and DC CBTU Chair Gwend Johnson chaired the meeting. Future meetings are planned.
- reported by Rick Powell