{"id":66929,"date":"2023-07-18T13:01:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T17:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/?p=66929"},"modified":"2023-07-18T13:01:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T17:01:58","slug":"as-hollywood-strikes-lets-remember-7-real-life-norma-raes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/as-hollywood-strikes-lets-remember-7-real-life-norma-raes\/","title":{"rendered":"As Hollywood Strikes, Let&#8217;s Remember 7 Real-Life Norma Raes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Watch: Fran Drescher delivers fiery speech on SAG-AFTRA strike\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J4SAPOX7R5M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/research-women-are-getting-angrier-women-we-know\/\">mad as hell<\/a> \u2013 and they\u2019re not going to take it anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, this lede directly evokes the very famous line from the 1976 movie \u201cNetwork\u201d \u2013 but not in a tongue-in-cheek way. It\u2019s fitting here because the character who yells it, anchorman Howard Beale, does so in anger at the loss of his job, and the realities of a cruel and crumbling world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201cthey\u201d that I reference above, however, are the unionized members of the entertainment industry \u2013 those in the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists \u2013 who are <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/100-years-of-power-part-3-what-the-future-holds\/\">fighting for their rights<\/a> to fair minimum pay rates, job and <a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2023\/07\/17\/striking-hollywood-actors-fear-their-likeness-being-used-by-ai-forever\/\">identity protections<\/a> amid the rapid development of AI technology, and more. (<em>Full disclosure: I&#8217;m a member of SAG-AFTRA as a session singer.<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And these efforts are energized. On an oppressively hot Monday afternoon, several days into the combined strike, dozens of union members assembled outside of Netflix\u2019s Manhattan headquarters to create a jovial picket line. Despite the humidity (and residual sweat), writers, actors and singers were marching, chanting, and dancing to songs like Bee-Gees hit \u201cStaying Alive\u201d and Alice Deejay\u2019s club classic \u201cBetter Off Alone\u201d \u2013 as if to ask studio executives if\u00a0they\u2019re truly faring better without creative workers. Similar scenes played out throughout other parts of New York City and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, higher-ups have been, shall we say, less than sympathetic to the cause. During a recent, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/tv\/news\/bob-iger-writers-actors-strike-disney-ceo-1235669169\/\">now-viral interview<\/a>, Disney CEO Bob Iger, who makes a <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2022\/11\/21\/disney-bob-iger-ceo-pay-stock-awards-bonus\/\">reported $27 million<\/a> per year, referred to striking employees\u2019 demands and actions as \u201cvery disturbing,\u201d adding: \u201cThis is the worst time in the world to add \u2026 disruption.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"block_64b6c49bba30a\" class=\"wp-block related-post alignwide\">\n      <div class=\"wrap\">\n    <div class=\"section-title\">\n      <h4>Related<\/h4>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"post-wrap\">\n              <div class=\"thumbnail\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/the-trade-worlds-big-sexist-pipeline-problem\/\" class=\"post-image-link\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/tradeswomen-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/tradeswomen-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/tradeswomen-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/tradeswomen-84x84.jpg 84w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/tradeswomen-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\n          <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"entry-text\">\n          <h3 class=\"post-title\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/the-trade-worlds-big-sexist-pipeline-problem\/\">\n              The Trade World\u2019s Big, Sexist Pipeline Problem\n            <\/a>\n          <\/h3>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n<p>But Hollywood\u2019s workers are fed up, making now the exact right time to act, SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher charged in her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J4SAPOX7R5M\">impassioned announcement<\/a> about the strike. \u201cI cannot believe \u2026 how far apart we are on so many things. It is disgusting. Shame on them,\u201d she said.. \u201cIf we don\u2019t stand tall right now, we are all going to be in trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her speech was a barn-burner \u2013 and a continuation of the tradition of women leading labor movements, perhaps most memorably dramatized in the 1979 movie &#8220;Norma Rae.&#8221; On the occasion of the latest strike, here are seven women who organized and galvanized workers into collective action over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-1-kate-mullany\"><strong>1. Kate Mullany<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Mullany is known as the mother of the country&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kate_Mullany\">first women\u2019s union<\/a>. The Collar Laundry Union based in Troy, New York, was a 300-strong group founded in 1864 that engaged in a successful week-long strike to both increase wages and improve women\u2019s working conditions. Her efforts grabbed the attention of the National Labor Union, which offered her a job as an assistant secretary \u2013 she would ultimately become its vice president. For her achievements on behalf of workers, she was posthumously inducted into the National Women&#8217;s Hall of Fame in 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2. Margaret \u201cMaggie\u201d Hinchey<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/people\/margaret-hinchey.htm\">prominent figure<\/a> in both the labor and suffrage movements of the early 1900s, Hinchey first entered the workers\u2019 rights fray when her commercial laundry colleagues went on strike. When she joined the movement, her abilities as a public speaker and organizer shone through \u2013 making it difficult for her to find industry work post-strike, but easy to get involved with the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Her rhetoric even landed her an audience with then-President Woodrow Wilson \u2013 as well as several stints in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>3. Rosina Tucker<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Tucker <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rosina_Tucker\">played<\/a> a critical role in the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first-ever labor union organized by Black workers. Because employees themselves feared retribution for joining a union, members\u2019 wives \u2013 Tucker chief among them \u2013 did the bulk of the recruitment, organizing and fundraising work. In 1925, she was named president of the Women\u2019s Economic Council, and used the position to further her fights for racial and gender equity. Over the years, she would lend her voice to the causes of laundry workers, teachers and red caps in the D.C. area. At her funeral, she was remembered and referred to as \u201cMother Tucker.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"815\" src=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/app\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SAG-WGA-UNION-STRIKE-WORKERS-RIGHTS-1024x815.jpg\" alt=\"SAG WGA UNION STRIKE WORKERS RIGHTS\" class=\"wp-image-66930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SAG-WGA-UNION-STRIKE-WORKERS-RIGHTS-1024x815.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SAG-WGA-UNION-STRIKE-WORKERS-RIGHTS-525x418.jpg 525w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SAG-WGA-UNION-STRIKE-WORKERS-RIGHTS-768x611.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SAG-WGA-UNION-STRIKE-WORKERS-RIGHTS-150x119.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SAG-WGA-UNION-STRIKE-WORKERS-RIGHTS-75x60.jpg 75w, https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/SAG-WGA-UNION-STRIKE-WORKERS-RIGHTS.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">As entertainment industry workers strike for their rights, we&#8217;re remembering other women who galvanized employees into group action. (Credit: Candice Helfand-Rogers)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>4. Emma Tenayuca<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>A civil rights activist as well as a labor organizer, Tenayuca <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/people\/emma-tenayuca.htm\">led numerous strikes<\/a> organized by women workers in the 1930s. Initially, she did this in tandem with the League of United Latin American Citizens and the International Ladies\u2019 Garment Workers\u2019 Union. But Tenayuca, a Mexican woman, felt these organizations failed to honor the needs of Texas\u2019 most marginalized residents. After breaking free, she led her largest demonstration: the pecan shellers strike of 1938 in San Antonio. Over 12,000 workers went on strike for three months, before a compromise was reached. In honor of her years of work, she was named to the San Antonio Women\u2019s Hall of Fame in 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>5. Crystal Lee Sutton<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Sutton\u2019s unfair working conditions and subsequent activism to fix them <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crystal_Lee_Sutton\">served as the inspiration<\/a> for the aforementioned \u201cNorma Rae\u201d film. While employed at the J.P. Stevens textile factory in North Carolina in the mid-1960s, Sutton attempted to unionize her colleagues in pursuit of better pay and care \u2013 she was threatened then fired with a police escort for her trouble. A years-long battle ensued, before a contract agreement between workers and management was reached in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/27\/magazine\/27sutton-t.html\">1980<\/a>. Sutton continued organizing for the larger Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union afterwards, and received the Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award for her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>6. Ai-jen Poo<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Poo serves <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ai-jen_Poo\">as both<\/a> the president of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, an organization that promotes domestic workers\u2019 rights, and Caring Across Generations, which vies for change in the long-term care industry \u2013 the latest in a long line of advocacy roles for her. The Taiwanese-American activist has worked hard to secure paid leave, harassment protections and other basic rights for America\u2019s domestic workers. In 2014, Poo was given a MacArthur &#8220;Genius&#8221; Award for her dedication to improving workers\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>7. Liz Shuler<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>The entirety of Shuler\u2019s career is in labor organization \u2013 from her first job as an organizer for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, to her current post as the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liz_Shuler\">first elected woman president<\/a> of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, or AFL\u2013CIO \u2013 the largest grouping of unions in the U.S. She assumed the role in August 2021, after many years of membership and leadership within the organization, and the untimely death of her predecessor, Richard Trumka. Through her years of work, Shuler has lobbied against policies that would hurt union workers, and for initiatives that ensure safety and fairness.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"block_64b6c481ba309\" class=\"wp-block related-post alignwide\">\n      <div class=\"wrap\">\n    <div class=\"section-title\">\n      <h4>Related<\/h4>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    <div class=\"post-wrap\">\n              <div class=\"thumbnail\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/care-in-action-boosts-women-of-color-candidates-support-domestic-workers\/\" class=\"post-image-link\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Care-in-Action-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thestoryexchange.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Care-in-Action-150x150.jpeg 150w, 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