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May 27, 2024

Organizing One of the Largest Black Led Unions in the United States

Keith Kelleher The Forge

A follow-up to “How Four Black Women Changed Labor Organizing Forever”, this article captures the contract fight that followed and the genius and fortitude required to create one of the most important unions in U.S. history.

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February 19, 2024

How Four Black Women Changed Homecare Organizing Forever

Keith Kelleher The Forge

Forty years ago in Chicago, McMaid workers sparked a movement.

May 10, 2021

UE Fought for Child Care as “Infrastructure” as Far Back as WWII

United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of American (UE) United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of American (UE)

“An adequate child program must be made available to every child of working mothers, regardless of race, creed or color.”

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October 3, 2013

Vermont Home Care Workers Vote to Unioniize

Associated Press Burlington Free Press

Home Care workers in the state of Vermont have overwhelmingly voted to be represented by AFSCME.

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