WILD

Women in Leadership Development

“Unions Helping Women: Women Helping Unions”

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Each year the New Jersey State AFL-CIO Sponsor a Women in Leadership Development (WILD) Conference which is held at the Rutgers Labor Center. The goal of the WILD Conference is to address the broad question of how unions help women and how women help unions. 

The WILD Conference is also designed to ensure that union women have every opportunity to be educated, develop leadership skills, and build diversity within the labor movement. Attendees at the Annual WILD Conferences meet and talk with union leaders, organizers, educators, and authors, who share the challenges they face and their strategies for advocating for and organizing workers.

The Conference is always held in March in honor of Women’s History Month, and begins on Friday night with guest speakers and a dinner reception for networking. Workshops, panel discussions, and a keynote speaker continue on Saturday. Topics that have been addressed by the WILD Conference include: 

Effective Organizing                                          Employee Free Choice Act  

A Non-Traditional Approach to Careers           Mobilizing around Women’s Health Issues       

Social Security and Work                                 Women in the Building Trade

COPE and GOTV Strategies                           Kentucky River Decision

The next WILD Conference will be held March 28 and 29, 2008, at Rutgers Labor Center. For more information on the New Jersey State AFL-CIO WILD Conference,

please contact Secretary-Treasurer Laurel Brennan at 609 989-8730.