AFL-CIO Convention Attendees Create Cardboard Cutouts of Workers to Make Invisible Work Visible
The term ābanana scannerā sticks in Jackie Gitmedās throat. Itās 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.
āThey said we were ignorant and overpaid and didnāt deserve any better,ā 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.


