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Women United: Stories of Women’s Struggles for Equality in the Canadian Auto Workers Union
by Peggy Nash and Julie White
Between the Lines
272 pages, $29.95
In their earlier days, unions may have protected the working class, but it was an incomplete protection. The fight to include all women’s rights in those guaranteed by labour contracts has lasted decades. In Women United, one-time CAW-Unifor labour negotiator and member of Parliament Peggy Nash and former CAW-Unifor women’s department director Julie White tell the Canadian version of this story from 1935 to 2014. What they show is how women’s contributions to organized labour in Canada helped ensure a more inclusive version of workers’ rights — a version that, as they note, remains a work in progress.
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