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“For working men and women it's a struggle, a fight every
day. But I put in my mind that I wasn't fighting for myself, I was
fighting for the young people who are coming along behind me, we
have to build a foundation.”
Bubba Turner, Sauce Cook, 25
years at the Frontier Hotel
The night they all marched back in, after
six long years, this—this was what we all work for in the
labor movement, and it was right before us on that night.
Gerald McEntee, General President, AFSCME
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“We've had long losing
strikes. We've had strikes that continued in name only with no actual
picketing and the strikers being blown to the four winds. But we’ve
never seen anything like this before.”
Rich McCracken Strike Council
“When we struggle we almost always
win, and when we do not struggle we always lose. The Frontier Hotel
workers fought heroically for labor's new era.”
Rev. Jesse Jackson
“You can break a rich man, but you can't break a poor man”
Mary Burns, Housekeeper, 15 years at
the Frontier Hotel
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