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Picture a manufacturing worker. Are you imagining a woman wielding a torch or assembling an SUV? 

The manufacturing sector provides good jobs with family-supporting wages and benefits, which do not require four-year degrees. More women should hold these jobs.

On Wednesday, March 15, 2023 the Baltimore-DC Building Trades and the Maryland State and D.C. AFL-CIO held the 2023 Maryland General Assembly Legislative Reception at the Governor Calvert House in Annapolis, MD.

The Paycheck Fairness Act increases penalties when employers violate equal pay provisions.

Women are now nearly 50% of the workforce—yet inequality in the workplace continues. Unequal pay, harassment and discrimination are just some of the abuses women face daily.

But when women stand together, they can demand equality. And a union contract delivers.

History has long been portrayed as a series of "great men" taking great action to shape the world we live in. In recent decades, however, social historians have focused more on looking at history "from the bottom up," studying the vital role that working people played in our heritage.