THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Focus on Labor Women

VFA has a long history of honoring women in labor. The VFA Pioneer Histories Project includes interviews with many influential labor women, who are featured below. Also on this page you will find a link to the VFA conference “Labor and the Women’s Movement:  The Untold Story and Why It Matters” held in 2014 where speakers shared the key role labor women played in the women’s movement.

Click on a name or photo below to learn their stories.

Women in the
Labor Movement –
VFA Event
Mickey Beil Catherine Conroy Annie Crump Clara Day
Margaret Blackshere Dorothy Haener Aileen Hernandez Dr. Allie Latimer
Millie Jeffrey Nancy Shier Maida Kemp Elizabeth Koontz
Anne Ladky Helen Ramirez Odell Laura Unger Suzanne Miller
Dr. Phyllis Wallace  Rev. Addie Wyatt Karen Nussbaum Joyce D. Miller
Gloria T. Johnson Judith Lonnquist Gail Gabler Vicki Saporta