The Militant - 6/23/97 -- Women Miners To Meet In Canada

Vol.61/No.24 June 23, 1997

Women Miners To Meet In Canada
The 19th National Conference of Women Miners and Supporters is June 27-29 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The conference is sponsored by the Coal Employment Project (CEP), an organization founded in the late 1970s to help women get and keep jobs in the coal mines. The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) has endorsed the conference.

This is the first year the conference has been outside the U.S. Joan Nelson, a member of UMWA Local 1565 in Alberta and one of the organizers of this year's conference said, "We welcome everyone to attend the conference. We are working to ensure there will be something of interest to everyone fighting for workers rights."

Two international guests from Germany are expected to attend the conference. Linda Chavez-Thompson, secretary of the AFL-CIO is scheduled as a speaker at the conference. Workshop topics include sexual harassment, the importance of unions, safety in the workplace, and organizing. For more information contact CEP, P.O. Box 682, Tazewell, Virginia 24651 or call (540) 988-5877.

-MARY ZINS

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