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Journalist Kim Kelly gives us a spooky little roundup of labor actions from gravediggers, embalmers, and coffin makers (oh my!).
Sources:
- https://proteanmag.com/2021/10/31/picket-lines-in-the-graveyard-a-history-of-cemetery-workers-strikes/
- https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67168074
- https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/dc33-strike-philadelphia-medical-examiners-injunction-20250703.html
- https://6abc.com/post/retrieval-dead-bodies-is-being-delayed-due-blue-collar-union-dc33-strike-philadelphia-officials-say/16936166/
- https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/sacrilegious-bodies-piling-up-at-cook-county-morgue/
- https://6abc.com/archive/8511845/
- https://abc7.com/archive/8719820/
- https://www.nytimes.com/1964/10/02/archives/workers-strike-funeral-homes-100-establishments-hit-in-the.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/1964/10/04/archives/state-fails-to-end-embalmers-strike.html
- https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/2024/08/28/the-coffin-makers-strike-1872/
- https://newspapers.bc.edu/?a=d&d=pilot18720622-01.2.22&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-----------------------
