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loice activists must keep mobilized to defeat the right-wing Operation Rescue. vice activists must keep mobilized to defeat the right-wing Operation AFL-CIO set to adopt position on abortion Vain repetitions as the ductive Rights Project Director of the Coalition of Labor Union Women [CLUW].
CLUW is engaged in its own campaign to get the labor federation to adopt the pro-choice position of women workers. CLUW is circulating a petition for union members to sign in support of women's reproductive choice. [Readers are urged to support this effort. Contact the CLUW chapter in your area or CLUW's national office at 15 Union Square, New York, N.Y. 10003. Telephone (212) 242-0700.] Several unions have already adopted a pro-choice position. They include clothing, textile, and garment workers (ACTU and ILGWU, government employees (AFSCME and AFGE), flight attendants (IPFA), the Newspaper Guild, service employees (SEIU), autoworkers (UAW), electrical workers (UE), retail workers (UFCW), and the two teachers' unions (the AFT and the 2-million-member National Education Association).
Significantly, labor federations in Washington, Oregon, and Texas have already adopted pro-choice positions. Many unions have already demonstrated their pro-choice positions by endorsing and marching in the giant pro-choice mobilizations in Washington, D.C., in April and November 1989 called by the National Organization for Women.
Labor support critical
Labor support is critical in the current struggle to preserve the rights of women to control when and if they are to bear children. A recent Gallup poll showed that women's right to abortion has the highest support ever measured in this country.
A California East Bay CLUW chapter resolution calls on the labor movement to "speak out in favor of preserving the right of all women to privacy in making reproductive (continued on page 5, in “Native-Americans fight to spearfishing rights 'For Native-Americans, the question of spearfishing rights and other treaty rights is a question of life and death.'”)
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