She started as a young domestic worker in apartheid South Africa, became General Secretary of the South African Domestic Service and Allied Workers Union and was the first president of the International Domestic Workers Federation; Myrtle Witbooi – who died on January 16 – in her own voice and remembered by the Solidarity Center’s Alexis De Simone.
On this week’s Labor History in Two: The Most Dangerous Woman in America.
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