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How Beauty Salon Workers Built a Groundbreaking Union
The Labor Notes Podcast
10 minutes
1 month ago
How Beauty Salon Workers Built a Groundbreaking Union
Last month, workers at some of the Los Angeles and Santa Monica locations of Sugared + Bronzed, a salon chain offering spray tanning and sugaring hair removal services, voted to unionize with Communications Workers Local 9505.
Workers say the job is an arduous balancing act of delivering a comfortable, safe experience providing intimate services to customers, while navigating a breakneck pace of appointments. Inside the fight to build a beauty salon chain union.