People’s World: Unions and allies go to bat for Labor Dept.’s Women’s Bureau

April 18. 2025

ERA Policy Director & Deputy Legal Director Jessica Ramey Stender is featured in a People’s World article about threats to the Dept. of Labor Women’s Bureau, particularly for women in construction trades.

“We know just how difficult it is for women to access these high-paying jobs,” including the pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship courses in the building trades, adds Jessica Ramey Stender, the policy director and deputy legal director for…Equal Rights Advocates.

“It is hard, given the scale of the attacks from this administration on working people generally and on the Constitution of the United States, to keep track of specific ways” Trump and Musk undermine workers, Stender said in a phone interview. “So we have to focus on the very real attack on women” at work and elsewhere. “This administration is trying to relegate women back to second-class status.”

Read the article.