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The second UNC food workers’ strike, November 1969

Eight months after the spring walkout the cafeteria workers struck again, this time against SAGA Food Service, the contractor that had taken over campus dining.

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The coming of consciousness : UNC food workers' strikes, 1969

Meroney, Millicent · 1986

Duke

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November 7 – December 9, 1969 UNC foodworkers strike a second time About 250 of UNC's 275 cafeteria workers, organized as the UNC Non-Academic Employees Union, struck SAGA Food Services on November 7, 1969 over pay, job reclas… People: J. Carlyle SittersonUNC Libraries: Foodworkers' Strike, I Raised My Hand To Volunteer

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NC LIVE: US Newsstream NC LIVE Newspaper coverage of the November–December 1969 strike
UNC Libraries: Foodworkers' Strike, I Raised My Hand To Volunteer UNC-Chapel Hill
Carolina Story: Second Food Workers' Strike, November and December 1969 UNC-Chapel Hill
Related to the chronology entry “UNC Foodworkers Strike a Second Time” (November 7 – December 9, 1969).
NC LIVE: JSTOR NC LIVE Scholarship on campus labor struggles
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Part of UNC food workers’ and housekeepers’ struggles, 1969 to 1996

People J. Carlyle Sitterson

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Friends of the Orange County Public Library. “The second UNC food workers’ strike, November 1969.” Orange County Indexed, https://focplnc.org/orange-county-books/topics/unc-foodworkers-strike-november-1969/. Accessed September 19, 2026.

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