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9/4/2022
"Pour Myself a Cup of Ambition": The 1970s Echo in Today's Union Revival
by Ellen Cassedy and Lane Windham
This Labor Day, we’re hopeful about the renewed energy and excitement for workplace organizing—especially by women workers—and cautiously optimistic that today’s workers may overcome the sorts of corporate tactics that blocked organizing in the 1970s.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
8/24/2022
Women Have Always Been at the Center of the Labor Movement
by Amy Mackin
The 1860 strike of male shoe workers in Lynn, Massachusetts floundered until the strikers allied with their female compatriots, but the movement largely failed to maintain gender unity. This lesson is critical for the service industry unions organizing today.
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SOURCE: Marketplace
9/28/2021
Unions Gain Traction in the Restaurant Industry-Again
David Whitford and Dorothy Sue Cobble discuss the ways that workers in the restaurant industry hope to revive the high representation of food service workers by unions that prevailed in the 1950s
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4/5/2020
What About the Waitresses?
by Alison Owings
I wonder if – when – this viral horror is over, customers will have a new appreciation for the women, and men, who serve.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/18/2020
‘I Don’t Know How I’m Going to Pay Rent Next Month’
As more cafes, restaurants and hotels shut down, millions of workers will need help to survive.
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