Megan Cornish was born on May 27,1947 and is an American socialist feminist and labor activist with the Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women, as well as a retired electrician with Seattle City Light.
12 Facts About Megan Cornish
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Megan Cornish was born on May 27,1947, into a military family in Oswego, New York, and spent her childhood in various locations around the United States.
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Megan Cornish was arrested while participating in a demonstration on behalf of the United Construction Workers Association.
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Megan Cornish took a job at a nursing home where another member of Radical Women worked as a union organizer.
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Megan Cornish briefly worked in an industrial laundry facility, but quit after becoming frustrated with the conservative and undemocratic practices of the Teamster leadership.
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In 1974, Megan Cornish was persuaded by Clara Fraser, a cofounder of Radical Women and education coordinator at Seattle City Light, to apply for a position as an Electrical Trades Trainee, an all-female affirmative action program designed by Fraser to integrate women into the electrical trades.
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Megan Cornish was selected to be one of ten female ETTs out of an application pool of over 300.
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Megan Cornish described the period during which she and the other female trainees returned to work after winning their court case as the "roughest" time during her career at City Light.
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In 1983, Megan Cornish helped establish the Employee Committee for Equal Rights at City Light to fight workplace harassment and discrimination in response to inaction from management, union leaders, and the City of Seattle Human Rights Department.
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Megan Cornish retired from Seattle City Light in 2004 after 30 years.
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Megan Cornish remains an active member of Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party and continues to write for the Freedom Socialist newspaper.
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Megan Cornish's organizing activities at City Light are the subject of the book High Voltage Women published in 2019.