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Karen was the president of District 925, SEIU for two decades, organizing clerical and office workers, and was on the SEIU Executive Board. She went on to the AFL-CIO in the mid-90s, where she started the Working Women's Department and then served as assistant to the president until 2018.
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Nussbaum writes on women, labor, politics and culture. Labor...
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Karen Nussbaum (born April 25, 1950) is an American labor leader and founding director of Working America. Nussbaum was born in Chicago where her mother, Annette Brenner Nussbaum, was a publicist, and her father, Myron "Mike" Nussbaum, was an exterminator, actor, and director.
Nussbaum writes on women, labor, politics and culture. Labor organizer, anti-war activist, Founder of 9to5, president of SEIU 925, director of U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau, founding director and board member of Working America.
1 feb 2021 · Karen Nussbaum was a cofounder of the pioneering labor-feminist organization 9to5. In an interview with Jacobin , she discusses why working women in the 1970s needed to organize as workers, 9to5’s hilarious tactics, and why “individually self-reliant but collectively powerless” women workers today still need to organize on the job.
11 dic 2020 · But not everyone knows that the film, starring Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin, was inspired by a real-life movement to empower women in the workplace. Karen Nussbaum's favourite...
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11 feb 2021 · “We felt we had this tremendous momentum in the 1970s,” 9to5 founder Karen Nussbaum told David Brancaccio on “Marketplace Morning Report.” “But we didn’t see what was coming in the ...
11 feb 2021 · You can find our interview with 9to5 co-founder Karen Nussbaum here. The 1970s saw an explosion of women’s participation in the workforce. By the end of the decade there were at least 12 million...
