United Electrical Workers
Evelyn Armstrong was an activist and leader with the United Electrical Workers (UEW). In 1976, she was elected as the first President of Organized Working Women at the Founding Convention. The OWW brought together unionized women who sought to bring the resources of the organized labour movement to bear on promoting equality for women at work, within the labour movement, and in the broader world. Evelyn played a pivotal role in OWW’s early years along with fellow member Dorothy MacKinnon, holding its own conferences on topics such as day care, equal pay, and occupational health and safety issues for women. The organization continued its work into the early 1990s