The AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Dept. has added a sixth national standing committee. After two years in development, the Committee of Women in the Trades will join standing committees on apprenticeship, organizing, project labor agreements, health and safety and the general presidents. BCTD President Edward C. Sullivan announced formation of the panel at BCTDs annual legislative conference in Washington, D.C., last month.
"Its a great turning point; its historic," says Lauren Sugerman, president of Chicago Women in Trades and a founding member of the new standing committee.