Sisters in the Building Trades

Women Building the Nation

A Conference Welcoming All Women in the Trades and Women in the Industry from Everywhere

May 18th – May 20th
Sheraton Grand
1230 J Street, Sacramento, California

This will be the second national all-craft tradeswomen conference held in the U.S. since 2001. Last year’s conference broke the record with almost 600 arriving from across the US and a few Canadians joined in. Women in the industry from anywhere on Earth are very welcome to join in. The official conference sponsors are the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO and the California Building Trades Council. In addition, several international unions are making donations to support the conference.

This national conference is being piggy-backed to the Women Building California conference, which is heading into its 11th year. That very successful conference brought together about 350 tradeswomen each year for two spirited and educational days of workshops and networking.

The conference costs are kept extremely low to enable as many women as possible to attend. Registration, if paid before March 31, is $75 per person. This fee includes breakfast, lunch, snack and reception on Saturday, and breakfast and snack on Sunday.

Click here for more information.

Here are some more documents for support of this conference:

Bullet Points on the Value of the Women Building the Nation 2012
Carolina, JIW Letter for Sponsorship as example
Example letter to Executive Board to get sponsorship
How to make a motion requesting support for conference attendance
How To write a letter requesting union support for conference attendance

And women continue to fight to gain ground. Have a look at this article about the struggles faced by many women in the trades.

Presented by: Oregon Tradeswomen Inc & The University of Oregon’s Labor, Education & Research Center

November 5 & 6

NECA/IBEW Electrical Training Center in:
6021 NE Airport Way, Portland, Oregon, 97230.

The Tradeswomen Leadership Institute was created to:

• provide tradeswomen further advocacy and leadership skills, and to foster solidarity and support.
• build the leadership skills of tradeswomen and aspiring tradeswomen,
• inspire and train tradeswomen to tell their story through letter-writing campaigns, public appeals, and relational meeting to organize effectively,
• continue to strengthen efforts in providing living-wage jobs for a diverse workforce,
• harness the energy and stories of tradeswomen to help convince public agencies to strengthen workforce diversity efforts.

http://www.tradeswomen.net

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