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Article: LABOR DAY, 1987 TRADITIONAL MASSACHUSETTS INDUSTRIAL WORK FORCE SHRINKING; UNIONS STRUGGLING TO ORGANIZE IMMIGRANTS, SERVICE EMPLOYEES
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 7, 1987
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Today, on the 100th anniversary of Labor Day in
Massachusetts, Daniel Wagner is going to work -- happy to have a
union job as a machine mechanic in Charlestown that pays him nearly
$15 an hour and overtime on holidays such as this one.
Henriqueta Suarez plans to work today, too, in an industrial
laundry behind Fenway Park where she makes $7.06 an hour and needs
all the extra money she can get to support two children.
"I'm the head of the household; and it's hard, you know." said
the 38- year-old native of Cape Verde.
Suarez, an unskilled nonunion worker, and Wagner, a skilled
union worker, are at opposite ends of the blue-collar labor force
in Massachusetts. Both work extra to ...