Arlene Holt Baker

Arlene Holt Baker

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Arlene Holt Baker was approved unanimously as AFL-CIO executive vice president by the AFL-CIO Executive Council in September 2007, becoming the first African American to be elected to one of the federation's three highest offices and the highest-ranking African American woman in the union movement. With more than 30 years of experience as a union and grassroots organizer, Holt Baker began her work in the union movement with AFSCME, and as an organizer and international union representative, she helped public-sector workers in California form a union and win contracts that provided better wages and pay equity for women.

Blog Entries by Arlene Holt Baker

Ask a Working Woman

Posted May 21, 2008 | 05:48 PM (EST)

As working mothers, we struggle to balance work and family and sometimes fear we won't be able to make ends meet when we take unpaid maternity leave. As working women, we worry about affording health care or retirement security while suspecting we're being paid less than our male co-workers.

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AFL-CIO Survey Turns Politics of Health Care Reform Upside Down

11 Comments | Posted April 11, 2008 | 11:47 AM (EST)

Despite all the hubbub about health care, the secret belief in the Washington punditry has long been that real health care reform in America is a political non-starter. They know that nearly all voters are insured, and they believe insured voters fear health care reform more than they desire it.

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