AFL-CIO Convention Attendees Create Cardboard Cutouts of Workers to Make Invisible Work Visible
The term “banana scanner” sticks in Jackie Gitmed’s throat. It’s what she and other members of United Food and Commercial Workers ( UFCW ) Local 770 were called during the strike and lockout nearly 10 years ago.
“They said we were ignorant and overpaid and didn’t deserve any better,” Gitmed says, as she and three friends, all of Local 770, first drew and then painted a life-size image of a grocery bagger on cardboard in one of the Monday action sessions at the 2013 AFL-CIO Convention in Los Angeles.


