The rise of the stewardesses for women's rights organization, the SFWR led then to the creation of a new union or one of them. They started out affiliated to the transport workers union part of a much larger union. And eventually each airline gets their own local. So American airline stewardesses were local 552 transport workers union and United stewardess were something else.
In this Live Interview with Nell McShane Wulfhart, we discuss the hidden labor and humiliation of the Airline Industry's "Swingin' 60's" image and how the "pretty faces" behind the tawdry ads fought back.