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I lived in Hattiesburg Mississippi from 1996-1998. While I lived there I operated an artist workspace called the BluHous Workspace with a number of other artists. The BluHous workspace was on the street level in the old St. Andre Hotel in downtown Hattiesburg, on the second floor there was what I would call low income housing, in fact it was the worst living situation I have ever seen, and I have seen some pretty bad living situations.
UUSC volunteers and members get an inside view of UUSC partner Equal Exchange's production facilities on its "roaster tour" in October 2008.
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Telephone operators, often known as “Gannon’s girls” for leader Mary Gannon, are shown during a strike meeting at Turner’s Arena circa 1945.
Gannon served as national chair of the National Federation of Telephone Workers and was an early advocate of equal pay for women. Gannon was outraged to find that the highest pay for a woman clerk was lower than the starting pay for a man doing substantially the same job.
Gannon was one of probably two woman leading a major local union in Washington during that period (Margaret Gilmore at the Bureau of Engraving was another). While the laundry workers and cafeteria workers unions were composed primarily of women, they were led by men.
Gannon led a one-day sympathy strike during World War II that disrupted communications across the country, including cutting off long distance service into the White House. It was centered around the issue of the giant “Ma Bell” importing workers at a higher pay rate than local operators in Dayton, Ohio. At least five other cities joined the walkout.
Gannon would lead the union on strike for eight days in 1946, calling for “an eight-day continuous meeting.” That strike centered on “sweatshop practices” like rules that read, “Do not change your headset from one ear to the other without calling a supervisor,” and “Don’t take an aspirin without being relieved from your position.”
The NFTW was an independent union composed of autonomous locals.
Eleanor Jane Palmer, the secretary-treasurer of the local union at the time recalled later how Gannon worked to aid telephone workers around the country and begin to form the basis for a true national union:
“Whenever anybody in the country was out! [on strike] I remember at one time in St. Louis the traffic girls were trying to get some air conditioning put in, and the only thing the company would offer were the tubs of ice. You’ve heard about them. In order to get some satisfaction on their grievance, they could have had a work stoppage, but they weren’t in the prime position where they were really disturbing the country or upsetting the country. So what they did was call to Washington and ask our president if she could give them some help.”
In 1946 the NFTW cobbled together 17 local unions with expired contracts (many had been on day-to-day extensions) and called a nationwide strike. AT&T settled before the strike began and the union gained the first national agreement in the telephone industry..
The following year, AT&T forced the NFTW into a strike. AT&T refused to negotiate a nationwide agreement and only offered a wage increase after workers had been on strike for three weeks. Four weeks into the strike, 17 contracts had been signed. The nationwide strike collapsed and it marked the end of the NFTW.
However, the local operators continued their strike until May 18, 1947, holding out for written guarantees that there would be no reprisals. With the operators ready to go back to work, Gannon led the operators to refuse to cross the picket lines of Western Electric workers until that unit settled later that day.
In June 1947, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) was formed as a national union with a stronger national structure, incorporating most of the locals of the NFTW.
Gannon led the local operators union from the time it was a company union in 1935 through militant strikes in the 1940s and up until 1950--after the Communications Workers of America was formed.
She led approximately 200 strikes—most for an hour or two—during her career, Many of the strikes were sympathy strikes helping other telephone unions around the country and helping to lay the basis for a national union.
She was in the late stages of pregnancy with her son Tommy during the six-week 1947 strike, and put in the long hours and picket duty required of a union leader. Her son was born shortly after the strike collapsed.
Gannon said of her decision to resign at age 38 in 1950, “I was torn between two children, for I feel like the union was my child too. But in the end I felt like I must give more attention to Tommy.”
During her tenure, the telephone operators were often known as “Gannon’s girls” by local news reporters.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHskfEk1RG
For a blog post on the Washington Telephone Traffic Union, see washingtonareaspark.com/2022/02/08/the-washington-telepho...
The photographer is unknown. The image is courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.
WTSA-16 participants showing their support for the UN Women/ ITU Equals partnership.
© ITU/ J. Marchand
Der Sinn dahinter ist anscheinend, die Öffentlichkeit darauf zu sensibilisieren, dass Frauen in der Schweiz durchschnittlich 19 % weniger verdienen als Männer. (www.equalpayday.ch)
Morgen (am 8. März) ist zudem Tag der Frau und ich hör's schon, wie Frauen sich doch nicht so anstellen sollen, sie seien doch schliesslich per Gesetz gleichberechtigt. Und ohnehin seien selbst schuld daran, wenn sie weniger verdienen, was würden sie auch immer schlecht bezahlte Berufe wählen, in denen sie dann auch noch Teilzeit arbeiten und es fehle ihnen überhaupt nur an Ehrgeiz. Es ist zum Kotzen!
Natürlich wäre es schön, wenn solche Aktionstage nicht mehr nötig wären und wir den Geschlechterschwachsinn endlich hinter uns lassen könnten. Solange Menschen aber aufgrund ihres Geschlechts diskriminiert werden und Gleichheit nur für Gleiche gilt, haben solche Tage durchaus ihre Daseinsberechtigung.
Equal in dust, we all must lie
Gravestone of Reverend Samuel Kendall, the first minister of New Salem, who died in 1792.
There were a number of remarkable gravestones like this one in the cemetery. I'm sure the face was intended to appear solemn but the chin line looks like a big smile. The smile along with the shock of hair makes the head look like a Dr. Seuss character. Note how the vines on either side of the stone top out with a heart.
The buffalo had a little bit of head start and was running quickly. The lioness gained ground, but was still a close race.
Hubby just loves my custom made bags/pouches. This one holds 20 Equal packets for our 16 day trip to China. He wasn't sure he would be able to find Equal for his tea/coffee over there. It sure came in handy! Note the manly yarn color ;P
Frauenarbeit ist MehrWert
Der Equal Pay Day am 19. März 2016 markiert den Tag, an dem Frauen den Lohn bekommen haben, den sie bis Ende letzten Jahres verdient hätten, würden sie wie Männer bezahlt werden. DIE LINKE will Betriebe verpflichten, Entgeltdiskrimi-nierung zu beenden - bei Sanktionsandrohung.
Linke aus der Bundestags-fraktion und dem Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus beteiligten sich neben vielen Frauen und Männern aus Verbänden, Gewerkschaften und Parteien an einer Kundgebung zum Equal Pay Day. Die Fraktionsvorsitzende Sahra Wagenknecht sprach dazu und prangerte dabei die Sozialpolitik zum Nachteil vieler Frauen scharf an.
DDC "Equal"
I put 2 identical toys in front of Shyla, and then I asked her to "bring". You can tell by how wide her eyes were that she wasn't sure how to "bring" both toys. So, she chose to bring one and then go back to get the second one. What a smart dog!
equal pay day 2016 Auftaktveranstaltung zum Kampagnenstart mit Bundesministerin Manuela Schwesig (BMFSFJ) in Berlin
Frauenarbeit ist MehrWert
Der Equal Pay Day am 19. März 2016 markiert den Tag, an dem Frauen den Lohn bekommen haben, den sie bis Ende letzten Jahres verdient hätten, würden sie wie Männer bezahlt werden. DIE LINKE will Betriebe verpflichten, Entgeltdiskrimi-nierung zu beenden - bei Sanktionsandrohung.
Linke aus der Bundestags-fraktion und dem Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus beteiligten sich neben vielen Frauen und Männern aus Verbänden, Gewerkschaften und Parteien an einer Kundgebung zum Equal Pay Day. Die Fraktionsvorsitzende Sahra Wagenknecht sprach dazu und prangerte dabei die Sozialpolitik zum Nachteil vieler Frauen scharf an.
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equal pay day 2016 Auftaktveranstaltung zum Kampagnenstart mit Bundesministerin Manuela Schwesig (BMFSFJ) in Berlin
Frauenarbeit ist MehrWert
Der Equal Pay Day am 19. März 2016 markiert den Tag, an dem Frauen den Lohn bekommen haben, den sie bis Ende letzten Jahres verdient hätten, würden sie wie Männer bezahlt werden. DIE LINKE will Betriebe verpflichten, Entgeltdiskrimi-nierung zu beenden - bei Sanktionsandrohung.
Linke aus der Bundestags-fraktion und dem Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus beteiligten sich neben vielen Frauen und Männern aus Verbänden, Gewerkschaften und Parteien an einer Kundgebung zum Equal Pay Day. Die Fraktionsvorsitzende Sahra Wagenknecht sprach dazu und prangerte dabei die Sozialpolitik zum Nachteil vieler Frauen scharf an.