The Bradenton TimesBreakfast at Norma Rae's is a New Manatee County TraditionThe Bradenton TimesI'd say that Norma Rae's is the best breakfast I've had in all of Manatee County, but that would be missing the point. Norma Rae's is quite possibly the best breakfast I've had – anywhere. In terms of food, it ranks with iconic landmarks like Slim ...
Phillips Andover Alum Named to Time's 100 Most InfluentialPatch.comDubbed the "nannies' Norma Rae" by the New York Times, her efforts have led to the founding of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the passage of the first-ever Domestic Workers Bill of Rights by both New York and California.
Mystic Seaport United Inching Closer to Being RealizedPatch.comNot so inexplicably a scene from the pro-union film Norma Rae comes to mind; workers gathered, organizing. In this scene, a group of Mystic Seaport, Museum of American and the Sea, employees and a few union organizers from the Connecticut chapter of ...and more »
PERS retirees to cost half a trillion dollars for next 100 yearsOregon CatalystIt's interesting – Whenever union abuses are brought up we are all Norma Rae'd into submission by recounting of tales of abuse of workers by robber barons of old. Yet that is long past, and has not existed in most peoples lifetime.
Women News NetworkU.S. FBI works to stop discrimination of MuslimsWomen News NetworkImage: Norma Rae - Flickr (WNN/CGN) New York, NY: New York, New York – As the American public reads of yet another report released on governmental surveillance of Muslim American communities, it is refreshing to know that for the first time since the ...
Polone: Why Sacha Baron Cohen Deserves the Nobel PrizeVultureFrom Nation through the eighties, dominant cinema managed to reach wide audiences with direct social commentary in films like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, To Kill a Mockingbird, Dr. Strangelove, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Network, and Norma Rae.and more »
Davidson: Denver events honor Latina trailblazers, raise cancer research dollarsDenver Post"Norma Rae, Dolores Huerta, Mistine Varela, left, with Annie Marcano and her mom, Ana Varela-Astacio. (Photos: Stever Peterson, Special to The Denver Post) Sharon Cordova: The great women labor leaders of our time." Collins is an Emmy-winning news ...