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Barbara J.
Easterling
Barbara J. Easterling is the second President of the Alliance for Retired Americans. She began serving in that office on February 19, 2009.
"It is a great honor and privilege to be elected President of the Alliance for Retired Americans. This is a critical time for our nation. Our economy is in crisis, and our health care system is dire need of reform - it is more important than ever that we educate and mobilize retirees on these issues," Easterling said.
Easterling pledged that the Alliance will aggressively educate both retirees and lawmakers on ways to strengthen Medicare, lower prescription drug costs, and preserve Social Security for future generations.
Prior to joining the Alliance, she was the first woman ever to serve in CWA's second highest office - that of secretary-treasurer.
And she topped even that feat in the summer and fall of 1995, becoming the first woman in history to serve as secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, the 13-million member federation of labor unions.
Easterling is proud to have brought to her union career the strong principles of trade unionism she learned as a child growing up in a Polish family of coal miners and rubber workers in Akron, Ohio.
Launching her telephone career as an operator at Ohio Bell, she had incorporated those principles into her own life by the time she joined CWA Local 4302 in Akron.
In 1980 she was summoned to Washington, D.C. to serve as an assistant to the president of the union - a position she held until her election as executive vice president in 1985.
Easterling has received a broad range of honors and accolades during her union career. She was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 1985 and received the prestigious Women's Equity Action League award in 1986. In 1992 she received the Midwest Labor Press Association's Eugene V. Debs award. She also is the recipient of the International Women’s Democracy Center Global Democracy award, the Ellis Island American Legend award and the March of Dimes Salute to Labor award.
She has been a leader in the fight to raise money for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
Easterling is vice chair of the National Alliance to End Homelessness and serves as a Trustee of the National Policy Association (NPA).
She also serves on the board of directors of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs; is a member of the Spina Bifida Foundation and serves on the executive committee of the United Way of America and its board of governors.
Barbara J. Easterling is the second President of the Alliance for Retired Americans. She began serving in that office on February 19, 2009.
"It is a great honor and privilege to be elected President of the Alliance for Retired Americans. This is a critical time for our nation. Our economy is in crisis, and our health care system is dire need of reform - it is more important than ever that we educate and mobilize retirees on these issues," Easterling said.
Easterling pledged that the Alliance will aggressively educate both retirees and lawmakers on ways to strengthen Medicare, lower prescription drug costs, and preserve Social Security for future generations.
Prior to joining the Alliance, she was the first woman ever to serve in CWA's second highest office - that of secretary-treasurer.
And she topped even that feat in the summer and fall of 1995, becoming the first woman in history to serve as secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, the 13-million member federation of labor unions.
Easterling is proud to have brought to her union career the strong principles of trade unionism she learned as a child growing up in a Polish family of coal miners and rubber workers in Akron, Ohio.
Launching her telephone career as an operator at Ohio Bell, she had incorporated those principles into her own life by the time she joined CWA Local 4302 in Akron.
In 1980 she was summoned to Washington, D.C. to serve as an assistant to the president of the union - a position she held until her election as executive vice president in 1985.
Easterling has received a broad range of honors and accolades during her union career. She was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 1985 and received the prestigious Women's Equity Action League award in 1986. In 1992 she received the Midwest Labor Press Association's Eugene V. Debs award. She also is the recipient of the International Women’s Democracy Center Global Democracy award, the Ellis Island American Legend award and the March of Dimes Salute to Labor award.
She has been a leader in the fight to raise money for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
Easterling is vice chair of the National Alliance to End Homelessness and serves as a Trustee of the National Policy Association (NPA).
She also serves on the board of directors of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs; is a member of the Spina Bifida Foundation and serves on the executive committee of the United Way of America and its board of governors.
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