REPOST @AFLCIO: Hattie Canty grew up near Mobile, Alabama, before eventually settling in Las Vegas with her family. In 1972, she began working various jobs as a maid and janitor. She became active in the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and was elected to the local's executive board in 1984, the year they staged a 75-day walkout to improve health insurance for casino workers. In 1990, she became the president of the union, and in 1991, the Culinary Union began the longest labor strike in American history, with a walk off from the Frontier Hotel over unfair labor practices. Six years later, the hotel's new owner settled with the Union. Canty not only fought to make sure that working people got paid the living wages they earned, she helped integrate the industry, helped people of color obtain better jobs and helped established the Culinary Training Academy, which teaches job skills necessary for employment in the hospitality industry. ----------------------------------- Video from "Line in the Sand: The People, Power, and Progress of the Culinary Union," a project by the University of Nevada Las Vegas. ----------------------------------- #HattieCanty #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #LasVegas #Vegas #VegasStrip #LasVegasStrip #DTLV #NV #Nevada #UniteHere #Union #Unions #1u #Solidarity #WorkersRights #UnionStrong #CulinaryUnion #FairWages #EqualPay #NoJusticeNoPeace #1uBHM #BlackHistory #Healthcare #AFLCIO (at McCarran International Airport)
