In talking to the members of the
union, another story came out: about how in the 1980s a group of secretaries, many of them single mothers — an identity that challenged the notion that the secretaries were working at Yale for pin money — had stood alongside the grounds and maintenance workers, the dining
hall workers, the cooks and the
plumbers, who went on strike so that the clerical workers
union might be formed.
At 6:30 p.m., Sen. Terrence Murphy holds a local public hearing on the proposed closing of Indian Point nuclear power plant, Local 21
Plumbers and Steamfitters
Union Hall, 1024 McKinley St., Peekskill.