Code,695003
Interviewer,
Interviewee,Joan Yarano
Date,3/12/12
Abstract,"Joan Yarano has worked for unions since 1953. She began with Local 217 and in 1955 began working for the Cleveland Industrial Union Council. In this 2012 interview she describes her work for the unions and some of her experiences. Yarano was also a member of a union herself, the DALU 1794, which was a union for secretaries who worked for unions. She describes her role within that union and some of the difficulties the union came across during her time in it."
Tags,"labor, unions, women, women workers, discrimination"
Special Notes,Female interviewer does not give her name. Interview ends at 23:46 and begins again at 24:00. Dog barking at 26:26.
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0,Introductions. Recalls when she began to work for unions in 1953.
1,Worked for the Cleveland Industrial Union Council.
2,"Very strict rules in other jobs, but unions protected her. She did secretarial work."
3,Employees at Cleveland Industrial Union Council.
4,The union she belonged to.
5,Unions were not mandatory.
6,She held many positions in the union.
7,Resistance to the unions.
8,Discrimination against women and how the union protected them.
9,Busting unions.
10,Unions regulated hours and wages.
11,Women's contracts.
12,Was part of the negotiating teams and the discrimination she faced.
13,cont'd
14,The union was approached by the employees.
15,Organizing in the credit unions.
16,Almost got run over by a car driven by a union worker during a picket line.
17,African American members in her union.
18,African American woman dealt with politics in her union.
19,What it was like to work for a union for 40 years and the changes she experienced.
20,cont'd
21,The shift from social to political programs in the unions.
22,She was not allowed to interfere with union negotiations.
23,Learned from people negotiating at DALU.
24,Discussed the changes experienced by the DALU.
25,Function of the AFL-CIO.
26,Working at the AFL-CIO. Women in the unions with problems.
27,Mostly dealt with men in the negotiation committee.
28,Women experienced sexual harassment and needed protection.
29,Discrimination against women in the workplace.
30,Men did not understand why women needed unions.
31,Women's strikes in unions.
32,Negotiations.
33,Men's attitude towards women in negotiations.
34,Her first experience with negotiations.
35,Woman in unions.
36,Women's work was not perceived as important work.
37,End of interview.