Unions vs. Workers in the Seventies

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http://www.marxists.org/archive/glaberman/1972/11/unionsvsworkers.htm
Publisher:  Society
Year Published:  1972
Resource Type:  Pamphlet
Cx Number:  CX10637

The tightly knit structures of the big industrial unions leave no room for maneuvering. There is no reasonable way in which young workers can use the union constitution to overturn and overhaul the union structure. The constitution is against them; the money and jobs available to union bureaucrats are against them. And if these fail, the forces of law and order of city, state and federal governments are against them. If that were not enough, the young workers in the factories today are expressing the instinctive knowledge that even if they gained control of the unions and reformed them completely, they would still end up with unions - organizations which owe their existence to capitalist relations of productions.

Subject Headings

• Unions
• Working Class