Caring Wages for Caring Workers: Join the June 10 ONE WILPF Call

Danielle Atkinson, National Executive Director and Founder of Mothering Justice, will be one of the speakers discussing how we can truly value essential workers during the June 10 ONE WILPF Call. Photo courtesy of the speaker.

By Marybeth Gardam
Chair, Women, Money & Democracy Committee 

June 2020

Lessons from the pandemic prompt us to ask what kind of society we want, and how we can value essential workers by paying them equitably. On the June 10 WILPF Call ZOOM (7 pm EST / 4 pm PST), two dynamic leaders will discuss why investing in caring is good economic policy and how we can support current legislation to get us there. Gather talking points and strategize in breakout rooms! Here is the registration link.

We want a community-centered, people-centered economy where caring work (teachers, nurses, delivery people, housekeepers at hospitals and nursing homes, aides and other mostly female professions, including stay-at-home moms and caregivers) is valued for the way it undergirds our entire economy.  

With so many economic recovery proposals floating, so many legislative bills to fund essential workers and their families, the June 10 WILPF Call will focus on what each of those bills offer and which ones deserve our support in the short window we have for advocacy.  

Even if you’ve been on the ONE WILPF Maestro calls in the past, you’ll have to register for this Zoom call at this link

Featured Speakers

Danielle Atkinson has extensive experience as a church-based, electoral, and community organizer. She has worked with organizations such as America Votes, State Voices, Population Connection, and ACORN. In 2012, Atkinson founded Mothering Justice, a leadership development and advocacy organization. Atkinson has led organizing efforts to raise the minimum wage in both Florida and Michigan. Mothering Justice also led the fight to get earned paid sick time in Michigan. Her work organizing mothers won her the 2013 Michigan Organizer of the Year Award. Atkinson received bachelor’s degrees in political science and sociology from Pfeiffer University and lives in Royal Oak, Michigan, with her husband Frank and their six children.

Truth Freemyn was the Principal Consultant of PBF Leadership Consultants for more than 20 years and Associate Consultant of Venture Concept Consultants. She has been involved in leadership development for more than two decades, with proven professional expertise in fundraising, management, human resources, and the personal growth and development fields, working with staff, volunteers, managers, boards, and funders. Freemyn formerly served as National Workplace Anti-Discrimination Project Director for 9to5, NAWW for five years where she oversaw the national welfare work and directed the Wisconsin-based 9to5 Poverty Network Initiative. She has served on a number of national coalitions including: The Rockefeller Foundation Grassroots Leadership for Women Coalition, the American Friends Service Committee National Coalition on Ending Poverty, and the Children’s Defense Fund National Welfare Advocacy and Monitoring Partnership.

These calls are open to the public, so please forward this notice to anyone you know who would be interested in attending this informative Zoom.

All of our past ONE WILPF Calls are archived on our website.