Lessons From the Stop and Shop Strike
The face of the striking worker is no longer an old-timey coal miner or burly auto worker. Over the past couple of years, the faces of striking workers have been our woefully under-paid public school teachers as part of the Red for Ed movement. Recently, service sector workers have also been rising up and demanding better pay and working conditions, from McDonald’s workers striking against sexual harassment, to Marriott hotel workers striking against low wages, overwork, and unsafe working conditions. In our own backyard, 31,000 New England grocery workers went on strike for 11 days in April against Stop & Shop and its massively-wealthy multinational parent company, Ahold Delhaize.
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