“working at reduced pay, with marginal perks and nonexistent health coverage.”
― There is Power in a Union
― There is Power in a Union
“The goats were replaced by two hundred bright yellow American trash compactor trucks, provided under a $200 million contract with Waste Management, Inc.”
― Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
― Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
“It had linked its fate to the activism of a political party that was far from activist, that largely took labor’s support for granted; there seemed little real pressure on the Democrats to deliver for labor when it knew, everyone knew, that labor had nowhere else to go.”
― There is Power in a Union
― There is Power in a Union
“a strike in the era of globalization must be vigorously supported by allies near and far and exceptionally well managed.”
― There is Power in a Union
― There is Power in a Union
“Work stoppages in America declined from 3,111 in 1977 to only 385 by 1995, even as real wages lost 15 percent of their value—data that, as if on a diagnostic chart, revealed an ailing U.S. labor movement.96”
― There is Power in a Union
― There is Power in a Union
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