Claire Haas

May 21, 2024 | forgeorganizing.org | Keith Kelleher |Bill Fletcher Jr. |Andrew Willis Garces |Claire Haas

A follow-up to “How Four Black Women Changed Labor Organizing Forever”, this article captures the contract fight that followed and the genius and fortitude required to create one of the most important unions in U.S. history.

Feb 29, 2024 | forgeorganizing.org | Gabrielle M. Rejouis |Bill Fletcher Jr. |Andrew Willis Garces |Claire Haas

Excluded from minimum wage and union rights, gig workers, disproportionately Black, grapple with a two-tiered system rooted in historical labor laws that must be reformed for racial and worker justice. During the Great Depression, the United States aimed to enhance workers' rights through New Deal legislation, exemplified by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). But by design it excluded Black workers.