• the first comprehensive campaign of unionized labor was the subject of the 1979 Academy Award-winning film Norma Rae?

Facts on topics related to Comprehensive campaign

Farm Labor Organizing Committee

• the Farm Labor Organizing Committee's 2004 collective bargaining agreement with the Mt. Olive Pickle Co. marked the first time an American labor union represented guest workers?

Service Employees International Union

• lesbian union organizer Mary Kay Henry was elected the first woman president of the Service Employees International Union on May 8, 2010?
• George Hardy, who headed the Service Employees International Union from 1971 to 1980, did his first union organizing among janitors in San Francisco?
• although William McFetridge retired as president of BSEIU in 1960, his successor, David Sullivan, fought him for control of the union until 1964?
• although William Quesse was convicted of conspiracy in 1922, less than five years later his union was one of the most politically powerful organizations in Chicago?
• in 1929, BSEIU President Jerry Horan offered US$125,000 to bootlegger Roger Touhy in exchange for protection from Al Capone and the Chicago Outfit?
• when Andy Stern challenged Richard Cordtz for the presidency of the SEIU labor union, Cordtz fired him for insubordination?