Shar Knutson became the first woman to be elected president of the Minnesota AFL-CIO in 2009 and served through 2015. Before leading the AFL-CIO, she spent a decade at the head of the St. Paul Regional Labor Federation. Growing up in a union family...
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A leader to emerge from the United Packinghouse Workers of America was Addie Wyatt, who got her start through union activism and continued her fight for workers’ rights during the height of the American Feminist Movement. She played an integral role in the civil...