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Continued from celebrates page 10 workforce, including two million in heavy industry. Women’s History Month continued... 1961: President John Continued from page 9 Estrada Kennedy establishes the Prior to serving in elective office, Bunn led or- President's Commission on the Status of Women was appointed as an administrative assis- ganizers and appoints Eleanor tant to UAW President Stephen P. Yokich in bring- Roosevelt as chair- in 1995. She was appointed by UAW Pres- ing woman. The report is- ident Owen Bieber in 1985 as an associate about sued by the Commission general counsel of the UAW. one of in 1963 documents sub- Bunn now serves as organizing direc- the stantial discrimination tor of the AFL-CIO. She is active in many largest against women in the organizations, including the Democratic victo- workplace and makes Party, the NAACP and the Coalition of ries in specific recommenda- Labor Union Women (CLUW) manu- tions for improvement, factur- including fair hiring prac- UAW Trailblazer ing of tices, paid maternity Spanish- leave, and affordable Cindy Estrada speaking child care. Cindy Estrada was elected a UAW vice workers for the UAW. 1963: June 10: Congress president on June 16, 2010, by delegates at She has worked with the AFL-CIO passes the Equal Pay Act, the union’s 35th Constitutional Conven- training new organizers and on several making it illegal for em- tion in . high-profile organizing campaigns; worked ployers to pay a woman Estrada, a longtime to coordinate the Organizing less than what a man Center in Lansing, Mich., and helped UAW would receive for the and social activist, is the first Latina same job. elected to serve as a UAW vice president. regional directors establish programs in 1964: Title A member of UAW Local 174 in Ro- organizing, recruitment, training, planning VII of mulus, Mich., since 1995, Estrada previ- and campaigning. the ously served as director of the union’s Before becoming director of National National Organizing Department. Ap- Organizing, then-UAW Vice President pointed in 2008 by then-UAW President Terry Thurman named Estrada the depart- Ron Gettelfinger, her responsibilities in- ment’s top administrative assistant. She cluded directing the union’s organizing played a key role in developing and imple- staff in the , and menting innovative strategies to assist Civil Puerto Rico. She joined the UAW interna- UAW organizing efforts. Rights Act tional staff in 2000 when she was ap- bars discrimination in Her responsibilities included directing Women’s History Labor Timeline Women’s pointed by then-UAW President Stephen the organizing staff in the United States, employment on the P. Yokich. Canada and Puerto Rico, and for giving basis of race and sex. At Estrada developed a passion for the quarterly reports to the UAW Interna- the same time it estab- labor movement while growing up listen- tional Executive Board. lishes the Equal Employ- ing to stories from her grandparents and ment Opportunity other relatives recounting working in the Estrada, a lifelong Democrat, is an ac- Commission (EEOC) to fields as farm workers and as factory tive member of the Coalition of Labor investigate complaints workers. Union Women (CLUW) and the Labor and impose penalties. 1965: Aileen Hernandex In 1993 she earned a degree in educa- Council for Latin American Advancement was the first woman ap- tion from the , and (LCLAA). She is involved in numerous pointed to the Equal then worked with the United Farm charitable organizations. Estrada resides in Employment Opportu- Workers of America. Whitmore Lake, Mich., with her husband, nity Commission. In In 1995 Bob King, then-director of Frank White, and their children, Jason and 1971 she was elected UAW Region 1A, assigned Estrada to as- Jesse. She is stepmom to Tracy, Jodi, Tara president of NOW. sist with the Mexican Industries organizing and Taylor, and the grandmother of Alexis, Continued on page 11 drive in southwest Detroit. In 1999 Bradon, Delaney, Cadance and Carter.