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What’s Happening at Local 70?

Striking workers in one Chicago unemployment compensation office talk about working conditions that led to a walkout in July, 1975.

Striking workers in one Chicago unemployment compensation office talk about working conditions that led to a walkout in July, 1975. Workers and claimants suggest possible solutions to the problems of understaffing and compulsory overtime. This tape was used to organize other offices to support the strike.

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