Historical Memorandum of Law for the Housekeepers Settlement
Document Description: The housekeepers’ lawsuit was grounded in the phrase within the thirteenth amendment which abolished the “badges and indicesContinue Reading
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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 the conditions of the settlementContinue Reading
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 in 1930 to promote cooperationContinue Reading
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’ movement were connected to theContinue Reading
Chris Baumann on students’ supportive role in workers’ movements
Excerpt Description: Chris Baumann describes his role as a white student in the housekeepers’ movement as supportive and behind theContinue Reading
Chris Baumann on student power and worker power
Excerpt Description: Chris Baumann reveals that students and workers have and can collectively leverage power on the UNC-Chapel Hill campusContinue Reading
Chris Baumann on generational movements made through small acts
Excerpt Description: Chris Baumann explains that justice movements at the University are built by each generation of students through aContinue Reading
Chris Baumann on reparations for Black citizens
Excerpt Description: Chris Baumann describes how the UNC Housekeepers’ Association made their reparations case for the descendants of enslaved andContinue Reading
Protest at University Day in Support of Housekeepers
Document Description: Almost a full year after the settlement had been reached between the University and the Housekeepers’ Association, theContinue Reading
Housekeepers Deliver Report Card to Chancellor Hooker
Document Description: Though the UNC Housekeepers’ Association won their settlement in November 1996, they were forced to return to protestContinue Reading