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In 2020, industrial laundry workers made $10.13 an hour on average, while the CEO of the largest laundry corporation in the United States made $9,778,369. This is a typical disparity in today’s economy, in which more is owned by fewer people than at any point in US history, and in which unions have…

That same March, in 2011, one of Clara Lemlich Shavelson’s daughters was in New York, attending a commemoration of the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire and a ceremony in which thirty women were receiving awards named after her mother. At these events, she kept getting approached by people offering …

Moreover, she was willing to talk about the method as a method. You and Alma clearly have a strong bond, she said. She trusts you. Which, she went on to explain, is the only purpose of the questionnaire, or “pink sheet,” as HERE’s system of gaining these personal stories from workers and then recor…

We had less time on the big stage, in front of the full SEIU general assembly, so you described only your department in the factory before detailing our ongoing campaign. It is called soil sort, you said, because in this country, laundry workers have to handle thousands of pounds of dirty hospital …

In May, UNITE’s international union office collaborated with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), one of the largest and fastest growing unions in the country, to launch a public-pressure campaign targeting what they were calling the Big 3 multiservice corporations: Sodexho, Compass, a…