Who Knew WashU?
Question: WashU sociologist Jake Rosenfeld studies the labor movement. The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated in 1882 in New York. As of 2023, what percentage of American workers belonged to a union?
Answer: B) About 10% of workers belonged to a union. Organized labor reached its peak in the 1960s, when one in three workers were members.
Congrats to this week’s winner, Maddy Frank, a staff member in biology in Arts & Sciences, who will receive an “I Knew WashU” luggage tag!
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Betha Whitlow
As director of the Digital Art History Lab, Betha Whitlow provides work experiences to students that are both fruitful and fairly compensated. She wants the same for her WashU colleagues. On the Danforth Staff Council, she successfully advocated for parental leave.
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Field Notes: South Pacific
WashU earth scientists in Arts & Sciences are mapping Earth’s interior and analyzing lava rocks from a volcanic hotspot near the islands of Samoa.
