Cheek-Clark Building

Carol McDonald on the historical legacies of Black workers rights

Excerpt Description: Carol McDonald describes how the connections between the BCC movement and the housekeepers' ...
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Chris Baumann on generational movements made through small acts

Excerpt Description: Chris Baumann explains that justice movements at the University are built by each ...
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Chris Baumann on reparations for Black citizens

Excerpt Description: Chris Baumann describes how the UNC Housekeepers' Association made their reparations case for ...
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Chris Baumann on student power and worker power

Excerpt Description: Chris Baumann reveals that students and workers have and can collectively leverage power ...
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Chris Baumann on students’ supportive role in workers’ movements

Excerpt Description: Chris Baumann describes his role as a white student in the housekeepers' movement ...
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Chris Baumann on the continuing problems facing low-wage workers

Excerpt Description: Chris Baumann explains the struggle housekeepers faced to get the University to meet ...
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Coalition for Economic Justice Protest Signs at the President’s House

Document Description: Following a series of protests from the UNC Housekeepers' Association and the student-led ...
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Final Housekeepers Settlement Agreement

Document Description: On November 26, 1996, the UNC Housekeepers' Association official settled with the University, ...
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Historical Memorandum of Law for the Housekeepers Settlement

Document Description: The housekeepers' lawsuit was grounded in the phrase within the thirteenth amendment which ...
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Housekeepers Association Proposed Settlement Draft

Document Description: In meetings with lawyers and advisors, the UNC Housekeepers Association developed by January ...
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Housekeepers Confrontation of Plant Manager, Claude Swecker

Document Description: In the spring semester of 1980, housekeeping supervisors threatened to fire dozens of housekeepers ...
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Housekeepers Deliver Report Card to Chancellor Hooker

Document Description: Though the UNC Housekeepers' Association won their settlement in November 1996, they were ...
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Housekeeping Workers Taking A Stand

Document Description: This flyer lists a number of problems experienced by the largely Black housekeeping ...
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March In Support of the UNC Housekeepers Association Flyer

Document Description: Before their final settlement with the University in November 1996, the UNC Housekeepers' ...
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Membership Role and Dues Paid for the Janitors’ Association, 1935

Document Description: Kennon Cheek, Frank Hairston, Elliott Washington, and Melvin Rich established the Janitors' Association ...
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Protest at University Day in Support of Housekeepers

Document Description: Almost a full year after the settlement had been reached between the University ...
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We Are All Housekeepers Newsletter

Document Description: We Are All Housekeepers served as a support organization for the UNC Housekeepers' ...
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