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Yes, unions have a racism problem. Do you think any large institution hasn't? https://www.inquirer.com/news/inq2/more-perfect-union-trade-construction-racism-p
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Yes, unions have a racism problem. Do you think any large institution hasn't?
https://www.inquirer.com/news/inq2/more-perfect-union-trade-construction-racism-pennsylvania-20220830.html https://www.inquirer.com/news/inq2/more-perfect-union-trade-...
> Racism, couched as union solidarity, has always been a part of the trades – embedded in their founding stories, their mythology. Their very success, some historians argue, was built on the exclusion of Black workers.
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> The local building trades have refused to share demographic data on the workers they represent. But the most recent available data from 2012 show that the industry’s union workforce was 99% male and 76% white in a city that is nearly 44% Black, and where other major labor unions are predominantly African American.