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Haley Shaffer Builds a Career in the Labor Movement (with a little help from the SLU network)

Feb 16, 2021

Featured – Student Stories

Haley Shaffer has been fighting for workers’ rights—including her own—for quite a while. But she says she’s just getting started. Haley moved from the Milwaukee area to New York City in 2014 for an internship at a non-profit organization, StoryCorps, and later took a staff position. “My coworkers and I were dealing with a toxic…
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Returning to Union Semester

Apr 30, 2014

Union Semester

Union Semester fall 2007 participants from left to right: Alex Bloom, UFT member and teacher at PS 8 in Brooklyn, Ryan Richardson works at New York Taxi worker Alliance, Sally Kim works at the UAW Global Organizing Initiative in Detroit, Emma Lang is the Board President of the Bread and Roses Heritage Festival in Lawrence,…
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