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Measure WW: How Working Women Bested the Long Beach City Council
CW: Sexual assault and violence against women.
Women of color have always been at the forefront of social change, and the fight for worker protections in Long Beach is no different—especially when the City Council refused to support them. This is the story of the time hotel workers took on the city's powerful hoteliers and political establishment... and won. From 20-year-old Renaissance Hotel worker Claudia Sanchez who suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and fell into a coma after working a 14-hour shift to the badass women who took their fight to TIME Magazine and the ballot box, our hosts are joined by local organizer Marlene Montañez who recounts the struggle to pass labor protections in the form of Measure WW in 2018.
Follow Long Beach Chisme on IG and TikTok @lbchisme and on Twitter at @LongBeachChisme.
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By James Suazo and Daniel SpeerCW: Sexual assault and violence against women.
Women of color have always been at the forefront of social change, and the fight for worker protections in Long Beach is no different—especially when the City Council refused to support them. This is the story of the time hotel workers took on the city's powerful hoteliers and political establishment... and won. From 20-year-old Renaissance Hotel worker Claudia Sanchez who suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and fell into a coma after working a 14-hour shift to the badass women who took their fight to TIME Magazine and the ballot box, our hosts are joined by local organizer Marlene Montañez who recounts the struggle to pass labor protections in the form of Measure WW in 2018.
Follow Long Beach Chisme on IG and TikTok @lbchisme and on Twitter at @LongBeachChisme.
Show Notes and Sources