Abstract
As a perceptive, politically aware person, Yvone Maitin provides an answer to an important question: despite the horrific treatment that many women working in nontraditional bluecollar jobs have experienced from their unions, why is it that so many continue to hold a very pro-union position?
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Herman Benson, “A Rising Tide of Union Democracy,” in The Transformation of U.S. Unions: Voices, Visions and Strategies from the Grassroots, edited by Ray M. Tillman and Michael S. Cummings (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999). As John Sweeney assumed leadership of the AFLCIO, Benson wrote: “But in Sweeney’s program … the means of unleashing the principal mass of power is missing. The army of , still in reserve, is the great untapped resource with the potential for changing the United States….A thousand organizers can perhaps win a few thousand new recruits to their unions. But millions of union members, if imbued with pride in their unions, if convinced that this movement is truly theirs, if persuaded that it defends people against narrow private interests, can become the social force that shapes public opinion and creates a new mood in the country. The key to releasing that power is to rekindle the spirit of union democracy.”
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LaTour, J. (2008). Sticking to the Union. In: Sisters in the Brotherhoods. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230614079_6
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