Organizing the South Today: Stories from UNITE-HERE

285 Richard B. Russell Library

Chair: Lane Windham, Georgetown University, author of Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide

  • Scott Cooper, Director of Operations, UNITE-HERE
  • Tracy Walker, Cook at the Atlanta Airport, Chief Shop Steward
  • Isaie Marc, Former Housekeeper at Disney now organizer in Orlando
  • Wanda Brown, Bartender Peachtree Hotel in Atlanta/President of Atlanta Chapter of Local 23
  • Latoya Colvin, Cook at Fort Benning, President of Columbus Chapter of Local 23

 

                     Part of the Southern Labor Studies Association’s Dirty Work Conference. For info: www.southernlaborstudies.org

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