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Article: Union Row Counters League Image; Workers at Women Voters' Organization Picket Headquarters
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- The Washington Post
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- May 30, 1987
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When 35 office workers at the national headquarters of the League
of Women Voters decided to form a union, they reasoned: What better
place to unionize than at the home of a staunch defender of women's
rights, free speech, equal opportunity and collective bargaining?
Nearly a year later, they're wondering. Yesterday, the national
headquarters on M Street NW near 17th Street was picketed by workers
who say they are frustrated over "a real contradiction between what
the league says publicly about issues and what they say when it comes
to their own staff."
"When the league was founded in 1920, one of the issues it fought
for was the right of workers to organize and the rights of women ...