{"id":136,"date":"2005-09-27T19:53:29","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T17:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2005-09-27T19:53:29","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T17:53:29","slug":"first-woman-elected-to-head-a-national-union-federation-in-us-labour-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/first-woman-elected-to-head-a-national-union-federation-in-us-labour-history\/","title":{"rendered":"First woman elected to head a national union federation in US labour history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of eating lunch, the Leadership Council of the Change to Win coalition met for the first time.  They added three people to their group, as the constitution provides.  And they confirmed Edgar Romney and Anna Burger as the Secretary-Treasurer and Chair of the new federation, according to a report now being presented by James Hoffa of the Teamsters.<br \/>\nAs Hoffa points out, this is <strong>the first time that a major union federation in America has elected a woman as its head<\/strong>, and Romney is the highest ranked African-American in the history of the labour movement in the USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of eating lunch, the Leadership Council of the Change to Win coalition met for the first time. They added three people to their group, as the constitution provides. And they confirmed Edgar Romney and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change-to-win-founding-convention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}