LaborArts


Photograph

Item no. 28159
May 1964
New York
Occupation: Hotel and restaurant
Collection: Union

Hotel Trades Council President Jay Rubin (standing, at left) and workers negotiating at the Social Security Administration.


While the integrated delegation he led to Washington in May, 1964 listens attentively, Hotel Trades Council President Jay Rubin presents the "tip" workers' case to Commissioner Robert M. Ball of the Social Security Administration.


From the pamphlet, "The Story of the First Contract", published by the Hotel and Motel Trades Council of New York in 1972 on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of its first labor agreement covering New York City's hotel workers.


See this image in the Labor Pains - The Birth of a Contract exhibit.


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