Debbie Schneider Explained

Birth Name:Deborah Schneider

Debbie Schneider is a labor organizer who has worked with multiple groups including 9to5, Women Office Workers, and United Healthcare Workers. She served as president of District 925 of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and was a member of SEIU's executive board.

Early life and career

Schneider's mother was a high school English teacher, and her dad was a corporate tax attorney. Her mother was part of a labor union and influenced Schneider's thoughts and opinions on activism. Influenced by her mother, Schneider went to college to major in Literature which later inspired her to move into journalism. After graduating college, she became a clerical worker at Cahner's Publishing company, where she tabulated market survey results.[1] Subsequently she joined the staff of the New York-based Women Office Workers.[2] Schneider was a college student working for a magazine when she first heard about 9to5, and she attended her first 9to5 meeting in 1978.[3] The 9to5 movement was originally started by a group of office workers in Boston, especially Karen Nussbaum and Ellen Cassedy, as a way to discuss work-related issues that gathered women from different fields to center on improving their workplace environment.[4] [5] Schneider's role in 9to5 was one of the topics presented in the 2020 documentary film .[6] In 1993, when Nussbaum left to work at the Department of Labor as the head of the Working Women's Bureau, Schneider became the national president of the district 925 union.[7] [8]

In 1995 Schneider was named president of District 925 of the Service Employees International Union,[9] and was later elected to SEIU's executive board.[10] In June 2001 Schneider was appointed a trustee of SEIU,[11] and she was appointed to serve as trustee for Service Employees International Union, Local 585, at the end of 2001.[12] In 2004 Schneider was head of the global partnerships within SEIU.[13]

Activism

Schneider is best known for her work with clerical workers at the University of Cincinnati.[14] [15] [16] The union led by Schneider, District 925, lost their first vote for unionization in June 1986 by 29 votes,[17] but a second vote in 1988 passed leading to the successful establishment of a union for the University of Cincinnati workers.[18] During the events at the University of Cincinnati, Schneider coordinated strikes where union members walked off the job.[19] [20] By 1990 the university had settled with the workers.[21]

Schneider has worked with multiple groups to help them establish unions including library staff,[22] Head Start workers,[23] hospital workers,[24] and workers for the City of Chicago.[25] She has also spoken as an advocate for workers with respect to employment and pay equity.[26] Schneider has also spoken against changes proposed in the Ohio legislature that would make is harder for clerical workers, who are primarily women, to prove their injuries were related to their occupation.[27]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nussbaum . Karen . Karen Nussbaum . 2021-02-09 . 9to5: Hope and Lessons from '70s Working Women . 2023-05-05 . Convergence . en-US.
  2. Web site: April 26, 1981 . Secretary demand causing change in traditional role . 2023-05-14 . Clarion-Ledger Jackson, Mississippi.
  3. Web site: Debbie Schneider; Transcript (1 Pdf), Nov. 3, 2005 ArchivesSpace@Wayne . 2023-03-29 . archives.wayne.edu.
  4. Windham . Lane . 2015-09-01 . "A Sense of Possibility and a Belief in Collective Power": A Labor Strategy Talk with Karen Nussbaum . Labor . en . 12 . 3 . 35–51 . 10.1215/15476715-2920388 . 1547-6715. free .
  5. Book: Cassedy, Ellen . Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie . Chicago Review Press . 2022 . Chicago.
  6. Web site: 9to5: The Story of a Movement The Real Women Who Inspired the Song PBS . 2023-05-14 . Independent Lens . en-US.
  7. Book: AFL-CIO . AFL-CIO news . 1993 . Washington [American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations] . College Park University of Maryland.
  8. Web site: Ward . Leigh Beth . September 4, 1994 . The State of Labor . 2023-05-14 . The Cincinnati Enquirer; Cincinnati, Ohio.
  9. Web site: Flynn . Terry . July 9, 1993 . Service-employees union leader becomes president of District 925 . 2023-05-13 . The Cincinnati Enquirer; Cincinnati, Ohio.
  10. News: January 20, 1995 . Article clipped from The Cincinnati Enquirer . 40 . The Cincinnati Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio . 2023-05-14 . Proquest.
  11. News: McKay . Jim . March 6, 2001 . TRUSTEE TAKES CONTROL SHAKEUP AT SEIU LOCAL FOLLOWS ELECTION DISPUTE . B-1 . Pittsburgh Post - Gazette; Pittsburgh, Pa. [Pittsburgh, Pa] . Proquest.
  12. News: Davis . Christopher . November 30, 2001 . Volatile year for Local 585 comes to close as SEIU mulls a restructuring . 21 . 1 . Pittsburgh Business Times; Pittsburgh . 19 . Proquest.
  13. Rosenberg . Alyssa . October 6, 2007 . Blue Collars Turning Green . National Journal . 39 . 39 . 03604217 . Gale.
  14. Web site: Crockett . Kimberley . June 25, 1986 . 70% of UC employees say job situation is OK . 2023-05-14 . The Cincinnati Enquirer; Cincinnati, Ohio.
  15. Web site: December 6, 1985 . Union petitions for UC election . 2023-05-14 . The Cincinnati Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio.
  16. News: Howard . Allen . March 14, 1986 . UC secretaries plead union case to labor board . https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-enquirer-uc-secretaries-p/124635917/,https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-enquirer/124635941/ . The Cincinnati Enquirer ; Cincinnati, Ohio . 2023-05-14.
  17. Web site: June 27, 1986 . Workers at UC turn down union . 2023-05-14 . The Cincinnati Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio.
  18. Web site: October 26, 1988 . Clerical union voted in at UC . 2023-05-14 . The Cincinnati Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio.
  19. Web site: Harris . Nick . October 19, 1989 . Sides differ on UC strike impact . 2023-05-14 . The Cincinnati Post; Cincinnati, Ohio.
  20. Web site: Hopkins . John . September 23, 1998 . Contract talks hit a snag at UC . 2023-05-14 . The Cincinnati Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio.
  21. Web site: Burgins . Scott . September 4, 1990 . Workers enjoy Labor Day respite . 2023-05-14 . The Cincinnati Enquirer; Cincinnati, Ohio.
  22. News: Kissell . Margo Rutledge . December 10, 1999 . LIBRARY TURNS NEW PAGE, JOINS UNION CHAPTER . 2 . Dayton Daily News ; Dayton, Ohio [Dayton, Ohio] . Proquest.
  23. News: Bennett . Sara J. . 8 Oct 1999 . Head Start workers rally today . D.4 . Cincinnati Enquirer; Cincinnati, Ohio [Cincinnati, Ohio] . Proquest.
  24. Web site: May 23, 1996 . Privatization . 2023-05-14 . The Tribune Coshocton, Ohio.
  25. News: Duerksen . Susan . February 10, 1984 . County Workers Get Union Pitch . 4 . Arlington Heights Daily Herald Suburban Chicago . Newspaper Archive.
  26. News: Nichols . John . April 1997 . No pay for overtime . 61 . 28–29 . The Progressive ; Madison . 4 . Proquest.
  27. Web site: Souhardra . Paul . March 20, 1997 . Union leader: Proposed changes would hit women hardest . 2023-05-14 . Times-Gazette; Hillsboro, Ohio ·.
  28. Book: Windham, Lane . Knocking on Labor's Door: union organizing in the 1970s and the roots of a new economic divide . 2017 . University of North Carolina P . 978-1-4696-5477-5 . 1096220116.

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