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How Beauty Salon Workers Built a Groundbreaking Union

How Beauty Salon Workers Built a Groundbreaking Union

Update: 2025-09-19
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Last month, workers at some of the Los Angeles and Santa Monica locations of Sugared + Bronzed, a salon chain offering spray tanning and sugaring hair removal services, voted to unionize with Communications Workers Local 9505.


Workers say the job is an arduous balancing act of delivering a comfortable, safe experience providing intimate services to customers, while navigating a breakneck pace of appointments. Inside the fight to build a beauty salon chain union. 

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How Beauty Salon Workers Built a Groundbreaking Union

How Beauty Salon Workers Built a Groundbreaking Union

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