This week, Commerce Consultant Katherine Tai, Director of the White Home Gender Coverage Council Jennifer Klein, Deputy Undersecretary of Worldwide Labor Affairs Thea Lee, Deputy Assistant to the President Samantha Silverberg and the White Home Workplace of Public Engagement hosted a gaggle of ladies labor leaders and organizers on the White Home. The occasion, held in partnership with the AFL-CIO and moderated by White Home Senior Labor Advisor Erika Dinkel-Smith, was a celebration of ladies in labor in honor of Girls’s Historical past Month and highlighted how the Biden-Harris Administration is placing ladies and ladies on the coronary heart of the Administration’s financial agenda, and selling and defending ladies staff’ rights each domestically and overseas.
Since President Biden took workplace, the financial system has created almost 15 million jobs and girls have seen the bottom unemployment price in additional than 5 many years. President’s Investing in America Agenda is prioritizing elevated entry in sectors the place ladies have traditionally been underrepresented, like manufacturing, development, and clear power, and is championing equal pay and making certain ladies have entry to the assets they should enter and stay within the workforce, together with high-quality, inexpensive little one care.
Individuals included AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, AFL-CIO State Federation and Central Labor Council leaders, in addition to younger ladies organizers on the entrance traces of organizing new workplaces and increasing the advantages of unionization to ladies of their states. Collectively, attendees represented union members within the 14 states they symbolize.
Biden-Harris Administration Individuals:
- Ambassador Katherine Tai, United States Commerce Consultant
- Jennifer Klein, Assistant to the President and Director of the Gender Coverage Council
- Thea Lee, Deputy Undersecretary for Worldwide Labor Affairs, Division of Labor
- Samantha Silverberg, Deputy Assistant to the President for Infrastructure Implementation
- Erika Dinkel-Smith, Particular Assistant to the President and Senior Labor Advisor
Roundtable Individuals:
- Liz Shuler, President, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
- AFL-CIO State Federation Leaders
- AFL-CIO Central Labor Council and Space Labor Federation Leaders
- Younger Girls Organizers
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