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Labor Research Review, Volume 1, Number 20 (1993)
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Labor Research Review, Volume 1, Number 20 (1993)
Building on Diversity: The New Unionism
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Home-Made Organizing: CWA's Strategy in the South Relies on the Folks Who Live There
(1993-04-01)[Excerpt] The CWA's got some down-home organizing cooking down South. Unlike other organizing in the South where the workforce is either predominantly black or white, CWA's targeted workforce in the public sector is composed ... -
We Are Union Builders Too: Oregon Union Tackles Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation
(1993-04-01)[Excerpt] Most unionists agree that discrimination is a union issue. Unions have civil rights departments and push legislative agendas, but it's the stewards who are on the front lines every day defending workers against ... -
LRR Focus: Childcare at the S.F. General Mail Facility: Sound Familiar?
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LRR Focus: "Do's and Don'ts for Members who are Closeted and Members who are Out."
(1993-04-01){Excerpt} DO confront homophobic jokes and attitudes wherever they strike. Closeted gays have very good hearing. If you let a comment or joke slip by within hearing range you can be assured that your credibility with that ... -
"To Hell with you, Charlie": The UAW has a long history of confronting sexual harassment
(1993-04-01)[Excerpt] Possibly no union was better poised to meet the challenge of sexual harassment after Anita Hill's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee than the United Auto Workers. For half a century the UAW has ... -
Environmental Justice = Social Justice: Southern Organizing Heralds New Movement
(1993-04-01)[Excerpt] In December 1992, more than 2500 people from the cities, small towns, and countryside of 14 Southern states gathered in New Orleans for a Southern Community-Labor Conference for Environmental Justice. In one ... -
LRR Voices:Organizing Immigrant Asian Workers
(1993-04-01)Ho Nhu Lai came to the U.S. from Vietnam in 1975 and began work In a food processing plant. He was shop steward for UFCW Local 271 and is now an International Representative for the union's Western Region staff, Ho is also ... -
Organizing for Justice: ILGWU Returns to Social Unionism to Organize Immigrant Workers
(1993-04-01)[Excerpt] Desperate situations bring forth desperate responses. But garment workers are demonstrating that when educated of their rights and assured of support, they are ready to struggle for justice, even when chances of ... -
Organizing Ourselves: Drywallers' Strike Holds Lessons for the Future of Labor Organizing
(1993-04-01)[Excerpt] In October 1991, drywall hanger Jesus Gomez complained to the drywall contractor for whom he worked that his check was short $60 for the week. The contractor refused to pay up the difference — and he felt safe ... -
LRR Voices: Health & Safety for Unorganized, Immigrant Workers
(1993-04-01)Pam Tau Lee is Labor Coordinator at the Labor Occupational Health Program at the University of California, Berkeley, and serves on the boards of the National Toxic Campaign Fund, National People of Color Environmental ...
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