Mar 27, 2008 5:47 PM
UFT President Randi Weingarten joined some 150 metropolitan-area labor, community, non-profit and political leaders at the Summit on Eliminating Poverty Among the Working Poor sponsored by Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ in Manhattan on March 13 and 14. As a member of a panel discussing “Industry-Targeted Approaches for Improving Low-Wage Jobs,” Weingarten outlined the UFT’s winning struggle to organize 28,000 low-wage home child care providers only after the union was able to win a change in public policy granting the providers the right to organize.