Inflatable Rats Non-Union Symbol Turns 20
Inflatable rats, popularly used in protest as symbols of non-union companies, turns 20 years old today from it’s first showing. The first rat was made for a Chicago bricklayer’s union in 1990. “It was a real attention-getter,” says CUNY lecturer and union consultant Ed Ott, who remembers the rats arriving. “People really got the message about what the rat was all abo
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Inflatable rats, symbols of non-union companies and ubiquitous at protests, turn 20 years old
Larry Mcshane, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER New York’s biggest labor booster is easily recognized: The beady red eyes, the bristling whiskers, the nasty overbite. He’s Scabby The Rat, the towering inflatable rodent seen all over town as the pustulated patron …
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Inflatable rats, union symbols, turn 20 years old
New York’s biggest labor booster is easily recognized: The beady red eyes, the bristling whiskers, the nasty overbite.
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