In Their Own Words: Workers' Stories

Debbie Fontaine operates forklifts and packs and moves boxes for shipping at the Rite Aid Distribution Center in Lancaster, CA…Greg Mendez is an office systems coordinator at New York’s Pace University… Bonny Wallace has been a nurse at Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg, OR for 20 years. These are just a few of the thousands of workers who have faced harassment and firing for union activity, delays in the union election process and employer foot-dragging in negotiating a first contract. Click here to read these and other worker’s stories and how workers making better lives for themselves and their families. (l) Debbie Fontaine; (r) Greg Mendez, photos from the AFL-CIO Now Blog website