LABOR ON THE MOVE: Lane Windham To Pursue History Doctorate:
Thursday, August 13, 2009
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)LABOR ON THE MOVE: Lane Windham To Pursue History
Doctorate: Lane Windham is moving on from her current position as media outreach
director of the national AFL-CIO to pursue a doctorate in U.S. history from the
University of Maryland. Windham went through the Organizing Institute after
graduating from Duke, and then went on to organize with ACTWU and then UNITE,
helping workers from across the South form unions. She came to the AFL-CIO in
1998 as a media outreach specialist, and became director of the department in
2003. She plans to study the history of how organized business has tilted
our nation’s political economy so sharply against workers and their democratic
organizations. She is married to Joe Uehlein, former AFL-CIO staffer and
musician, and they have a 4 ½ year-old daughter. Photo: Windham, Uehlein and
daughter Anna Grace look over campaign literature in 2006.