On Tuesday, March 14, SAG-AFTRA stood with PowHer New York and the New York City Council Women’s Caucus in lower Manhattan to mark the 17th Annual New York State Equal Pay Day. National Equal Pay Day is the symbolic date when full-time working women’s wages equal the wages earned by full-time working men in the prior year. Calculated on 2021 data, that’s 84 cents on the dollar nationally, and 88.7 cents for New York.
SAG-AFTRA Executive Director, New York Local, Labor Policy and International Affairs Rebecca Damon joined PowHer New York founder Beverly Neufeld and Communications Workers of America Local 1180 President Gloria Middleton at the annual rally. On the importance of unions in this movement, Damon said, “Union Women’s Equal Pay Day is celebrated in February — an entire month earlier than Equal Pay Day because the wage gap is 40% less for unionized women. It’s clear, unions help level the playing field and bring full pay equity for all women closer to reality.” Also in attendance were City Council Speaker Adrienne E. Adams; co-chairs of the Women’s Caucus, Amanda Farias and Farah N. Louis; and Council member Gale Brewer.
Top photo: SAG-AFTRA Executive Director, New York Local, Labor Policy and International Affairs Rebecca Damon, right, and PowHer New York President and founder Beverly Neufeld.
SAG-AFTRA Executive Director, New York Local, Labor Policy and International Affairs Rebecca Damon and Gloria Middleton, president of Communications Workers of America Local 1180 with CWA leadership.
City Council member and co-chair of the Women’s Caucus, Amanda Farias, and City Council member and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer.
City Council member and co-chair of the Women’s Caucus, Amanda Farias; Speaker Adrienne E. Adams; Councilwoman Mercedes Narcisse; and Council member and Women’s Caucus Co-Chair Farah N. Louis.
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