A Labor History Of Queer America; NYC Council's ‘Ban The Box’ Bill -28:08
Out In The Union: A Labor History Of Queer America
with
Mariam Frank,
author
Against the backdrop of the
historic ruling of the Supreme Court that gay marriage is legal in all the
states of this union and in furtherance of addressing the numerous other
inequities faced by LGBTQ and gender nonconforming people Miriam Frank,
Prof. of Humanities at New York University and author of Out In The Union: A
Labor History of Queer America, based upon 20 years of original research
brings us the stories spanning half a century of U.S. labor history and the
contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender unionists. She
expands our horizons both in
exposing the complex challenges queer workers
face in ‘coming out’ on the job and inside their unions and gives greater
dimension to and continues to fill out the profile of queer life and the
activism of the working class.
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NYC Council Passes ‘Ban The Box’ Bill
Restricting Use Of
Criminal Records In Hiring
with
Brandon Holmes, Community Civil Rights
Organizer, VOCAL-New York, a grassroots advocacy group
Carl
Stubbs, 63, stood outside New York City Council chambers in anticipation of
the council’s vote on the Fair Chance Act — a bill that would delay when many of the city’s private sector employers can ask job applicants about
their criminal history. He said, “I feel [that] being Black, having a
felony, you don’t get hired”. “I have had a felony for over 30 years.”
Stubbs, who’s also an activist with
the group Voices of Community Activists
Leaders (VOCAL-NY), wanted the bill to pass because it could improve his
chances getting a job. Now, the Bill arrives on the desk of the Mayor June
29th and we’ll find out if he signs it into law, precisely what it purports
to do and just how beneficial it could prove to be for the employment
opportunities of the formerly incarcerated, who have carried that
scarlet
letter around with them and suffered the Jim Crow consequences into the jobs
market.
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