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Willmar 8, The

• 1980 ----- color ----- 50 min ----- 16mm
• Eight women--bank workers in Willmar, Minnesota--suddenly found themselves in the forefront of the fight for working women's rights. Like millions of other women they had been relegated to low-wage, dead-end jobs. When a young male trainee was hired at almost twice their starting salary and the women were required to "train him in," they complained to the bank manager. He told them, "we're not all equal, you know." It was a comment that led eight previously apolitical, unassuming, church-going women to form a union and in December, 1977, start the first bank strike in the history of Minnesota. It lasted 18 months--through two brutal winters. This is the story of that strike and its outcome.
• Topics: (Labor Relations, Personnel Management, Women Studies)

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