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Macy's Longest-Serving Employee Retires After 73 Years on the Job

Macy’s longest-serving employee is retiring after 73 years of hard work and activism:

Can you imagine working in the days when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in the White House and the biggest movie at the box-office was The Wizard of Oz?

Rose Syracuse, can do you one better, because she was actually living those moments.  The 92-year old has been working for a whopping 73 years at the Macy’s Herald Square flagship store in New York City.  Rose, also a member of RWDSU Local 1-S, is now announcing her retirement. [UFCW blog]

Rose was a founding member of Local 1-S, and she fought to unionize her workplace:

Speaking with RWDSU, Rose pointed out that “the union fights for you.  They really help you. Otherwise how could you do it all by yourself? Nobody would listen to you.” We couldn’t agree more. Rose’s statement reminds us that the point of a union has not changed from 73 years ago: when sticking together, we have a voice that will be listened to.

[Photo credit: iJammin, Creative Commons.]