Addie Wyatt was a labor leader and one of the few women in the early U.S. labor movement to wield power. At the age of twenty, she dedicated herself to improving working conditions for women and all workers, and to the concept of equal pay for equal work. She was vice president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and director of its Civil Rights and Women’s Affairs departments. In 1974, she helped found the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), the only trade union organization of its kind.
Addie Wyatt was a labor leader and one of the few women in the early U.S. labor movement to wield power. At the age of twenty, she dedicated herself to improving working conditions for women and all workers, and to the concept of equal pay for equal work. She was vice president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and director of its Civil Rights and Women’s Affairs departments. In 1974, she helped found the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), the only trade union organization of its kind.