Whether it is Kennecott miners or Starbucks baristas, workers deserve a decent life, writes Isaac Reese, a University of Utah alumnus and recipient of a graduate certificate in labor studies from the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies.
due to contract ratification at Utah’s Kennecott Copper Mine, I couldn’t help but think of my family’s roots.
My family were not pioneers. They came to Utah to be coal miners like many others. Each day they would risk their lives to dig up the black rock that would power towns far away from their new home in Scofield. Each day they would emerge from the earth, faces covered in soot, to go home and repeat the cycle again.
While some of my family would die in this cycle, others would eventually be able to have a union job. Something that provided them with a living income, job security and medical care. The same things that workers at Kennecott are ready to fight and strike for. Organized labor in Utah isn’t just limited to the traditional union professions, evenIn right-to-work states such as Utah, unions have a place, and their benefits far outweigh the propaganda that demonize them.
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