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Show Me $15
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Fast Food workers coming together throughout the Mid-South for $15/hr and the right to form a union without retaliation from employers. #FightFor15
Feb 1, 2023 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Let's start off #BlackHistoryMonth with some St Louis Labor history.

STL has a long labor history, but have you heard about the 1933 Funsten Nut Strike led by revolutionary Black women: Carrie Smith & Cora Lewis.

#UnionsForAll Here’s what workers in St. Louis lived under.

In the '30s, the nut industry was BOOMING in St Louis. Pecans would come into the city from the Mississippi river valley. Processing those nuts was considered women’s work.