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Wild in Massachusetts
Leadership Development for a Changing Labour Movement
From: Labour in Canada Cracking Labour's Glass Ceiling
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Dale Melcher, Tess Ewing and Susan Winning, labour educators based at the University of Massachusetts, examine best practices and challenges of the Women’s Institute for Leadership Development and discuss it as a model of an effective and sustainable leadership development program for women in unions.
Contributors
Tess Ewing
Tess Ewing has been a labour activist since the 1970s, when she was one of the organizers of the Boston School Bus Drivers Union. While labour extension coordinator at University of Massachusetts Boston, she was an officer of the Umass professional staff union, PSU/MTA. Now retired, she continues her activism in the Women's Institute for Leadership Development.
Dale Melcher
Dale Melcher is a labour educator, a former extension coordinator at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the Massachusetts Teachers Association. She has been involved with both the Women's Institute for Leadership Development and the UALE Northeast Summer School for Union Women.
Susan Winning
Susan Winning has been the director of the Labor Education Program at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell for almost fifteen years, providing education, training and organizational support for unions, labour councils and community organizations.
