Louis Coalition of Labor Union Women, donated the records of CLUW to the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri-St. Louis on March 27, 1984. Women us a chapter of the National CLUW which was founded in Chicago in March 1974.
Membership is open to members and retirees of the bonafide collective bargaining organizations.
In October 1974 the St. Louis CLUW was founded. Betty Finneran, a teacher at Roosevelt High School, accepted the chapter's charter as its first president. The Group adopted the objectives of the National Coalition and began actively supporting that organization on nationwide issues affecting women workers. However, much of the St.