Gore Backs Working Women’s Cause

Vice president Al Gore urged hundreds of working women Saturday to keep up the fight for fairness at the workplace and pledged that the Clinton administration will back them.

Gore told more than 1,700 women at an AFL-CIO conference that it was time for a new awareness of what is needed for fairness and justice for working women.

“We can’t be satisfied until the notion of equal pay for equal work is not just a theory but a reality in the lives of working women,” said Gore, to cheers from the crowd attending the Working Women Working Together conference.

Gore reiterated the Clinton administration stand that people moving from welfare to work should be protected under existing labor laws.

“If Congress tries to deny basic labor rights to those who are moving from welfare to work … we’re going to say no once again and veto that provision, President Clinton will do that,” said Gore.