BARBARA BORIS Yoga

August 31, 2007

How Labor Won Its Day

Filed under: Misc. Musings — bb @ 5:49 pm

Woolworth Waitresses

Waitresses at Woolworth’s staged an eight-day sitdown strike in 1937, singing, dancing, exercising, doing each others hair and nails until finally management recognized their union and gave them a five-cent per hour pay hike.

Do you think they did any yoga?
http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=150&category=business