SORWUC [the Service, Office and Retail Workers' Union of Canada] - Frances Rooney

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<p> A 1978 article on SORWUC, a union formed with the intent to organize in industries traditionally female and avoid the top-down structure of the already existing unions. </p>

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<p> Women in unions? Yes, Virginia, there are women in unions but … sixty-five per cent of women in the labour force are not unionized. </p>

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