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9to5 in the News

03 Oct Challenging Sexual Harassment at All Levels of the Opera Industry

Posted at 14:50h in 9to5 in the News by Cindia Cameron

In response to yesterday’s news that Placido Domingo resigned his post at the L.A. Opera after numerous complaints of sexual harassment, Leng Leng Chancey, the executive director of 9to5, National Association of Working Women, issued the following statement: “Yesterday’s resignation by Placido Domingo is a step...

09 Sep Georgia Families Need a Georgia Work Credit!

Posted at 11:08h in 9to5 in the News by Cindia Cameron

9to5 Georgia is building support statewide for a Georgia Work Credit that would provide a bottom-up tax cut to working families by reducing taxes for families that are struggling to make ends meet because of low-wage jobs. Nearly 1.1 million Georgia families, representing 28% of...

05 Sep Renters win in Inglewood, California!

Posted at 13:16h in 9to5 in the News, California by Cindia Cameron

After a three year campaign, community activists have won a rent control ordinance and just cause eviction rights in the city of Inglewood, part of the Los Angeles Metro Area. 9to5 California, as part of the Uplift Inglewood Coalition, fought to ensure these basic rights...

22 Aug Join me in the fight for Black Women’s Equal Pay

Posted at 09:20h in 9to5 in the News by Cindia Cameron

Growing up I watched my mother go to work every single day. She worked as a Provisional Specialist for Ohio Bell (now AT&T). For a long time I was like, “Wow, my mom has a great paying job with a fancy title”. She had a...

08 Aug Immigrants build America: uniting us with the promise of opportunity and equality

Posted at 10:01h in 9to5 in the News by Cindia Cameron

In response to the Aug 7th massive raid at a Koch Food plant, in Mississippi, by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE), 9to5 Executive Director, Leng Leng Chancey, issued the following statement: “Yesterday’s raid at a food plant in Morton, Mississippi is yet another outrageous attack on...

05 Aug Facing anti-immigrant violence: We choose respect, compassion and unity

Posted at 16:00h in 9to5 in the News, Uncategorized by Cindia Cameron

In response to the mass shooting that targeted immigrants in El Paso, Texas this weekend, Leng Leng Chancey, 9to5 Executive Director, issued the statement below. Leng Leng is shown in this photo at an immmigrant rights march in Atlanta. The shots fired on immigrant families...

29 Jul Equal Pay for ALL women

Posted at 10:09h in 9to5 in the News by Cindia Cameron

Check out this Op Ed by 9to5 Executive Director Leng Leng Chancey on how and why our pay equity conversations and policies need to focus on women of color and all people facing workplace disparities. "Pay equity is a real and persistent problem for all women,...

22 Jul 9to5: The Song, the Movie, the Movement

Posted at 14:08h in 9to5 in the News by Cindia Cameron

9to5 is the movement that inspired the hit movie and ever-popular anthem of the same name. For all of us who have hummed along, sung in the shower, or tapped our nails to Dolly Parton's chart-topper, here is one explanation of it's on-going popularity,...

22 Jul Who’s the Coolest of them All? We are!

Posted at 13:57h in 9to5 in the News by Cindia Cameron

9to5 was honored to be named as 'Coolest Charity in the World' on July 10th, for our decades of work on Equal Pay - in recognition of the new level of awareness brought to this issue by the US Women's Soccer National Team. ...

22 Jul Welcome, Julie Emery: 9to5 Wisconsin State Director

Posted at 12:12h in 9to5 in the News by Cindia Cameron

I’ll always remember the hat pin my grandmother gave me when I went away to college. It was meant to protect me from "boys who got too fresh". The signals I got from my earliest years were about my powerlessness, and the assumptions about what...