Education
Tianti was a native of Killingly, Connecticut, graduated from Plainfield High School, and attended the University of Connecticut and the University of Massachusetts.
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Betty L. Tianti
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Career
She was elected president of the American Federation of Labor-Congress–Chief Information Officer union federation in Connecticut in 1985. She started her career at the American Thread Company factory in Willimantic, Connecticut in 1956. She later became president of her local union, and from 1962 to 1970 was a union organizer in New England and in the Southern United States.
She became the assistant director of the Textile Workers Union of America"s Committee on Political Education (Committee on Publication Ethics), which was the union"s political organizing and contributing arm.
From 1970 to 1974, she was an assistant agent for the Connecticut State Board of Labor Relations, and then served as Committee on Publication Ethics director for the state American Federation of Labor-Congress-Chief Information Officer. She became the labor federation"s secretarytreasurer in 1979. When the American Federation of Labor-Congress-Chief Information Officer"s Connecticut President John Driscoll retired in 1985, Tianti was elected to succeed him, making her the first woman in the United States to be elected as head of a state labor federation.
In 1988, Governor William O"Neill appointed her as the state"s first labor commissioner. She was inducted into the Connecticut Women"s Hall of Fame in 1994, and died of emphysema in the same year.
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Political Party
Committee on Publication Ethics