Labor Tag

A. Phillip Randolph and Bayard Rustin | Getty Images Black organizing history tends to drop us within the Sixties with the Civil Rights Movement. But before that era, many Black activists were mobilizing staff and unionizing their jobs. This Labor Day holiday, meet five leaders who were dedicated to empowering staff and reworking our workplaces. 01 Hattie Canty Hattie Canty is taken into account one in every of the biggest strike leaders in U.S. history. While Las Vegas was expanding rapidly with hotels and casinos, its hospitality workforce was growing as well. Under her leadership, her union, Culinary 226, “emerged as one in every of the biggest unions in Southern Nevada, representing the tens of hundreds of staff employed within the hospitality industry” when...