This week's labor history: Joe McCartin talks about the long struggle for gender rights and equality; Labor History Today's Patrick Dixon talks with five members of Culinary Workers Local 226 about their successful 1991 strike against the Frontier Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, and our Labor History Object of the Week is a dues cap from the archives of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America. Plus music from Pete Seeger, Sara Bareilles and Bobby DePace.
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Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Engineered by Chris Garlock.
Labor history sources include Today in Labor History, from Union Communication Services https://unionist.com/
This week's music:
Sara Bareilles – Brave
Picket Line - Bobby DePace
We Shall Not Be Moved-Pete Seeger
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