Rutgers Summer School Helps Women Build a More Perfect Union

It didn’t matter that Rutgers teaching assistant Megan Geerdts belongs to a union set in academia, and the other women she met on Monday were postal workers, transit workers, and plumbers.

At the Northeast Regional Summer School for Union Women, held last week at Rutgers Labor Education Center, she felt an immediate sense of solidarity.

“Their saying is, ‘never let a sister walk alone. From the beginning, there was so much camaraderie,’’’ said Geerdts, 24, a member of the Rutgers Council of the American Association of University Professors-American Federation of Teachers. She was attending the program as a winner of the Berger-Marks scholarship for young union activists, awarded by the Berger-Marks Foundation, which helps union women organize.
A broad range of union leaders, academics, and rank and file members from across the Northeast convene at the annual conference, which began in 1975. They attend classes on the global economy, collective bargaining, leadership skills, and labor history. [read more]

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