Chronicle of a Labor Victory
Against The Current vol. 149
Coodin, Freda
http://www.solidarity-us.orgnode/3098
Date Written: 2010-11-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2010
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13720
Most union members see nothing but hugging and kissing between their leaders and their bosses on a daily basis. It takes a different kind of union to break with this culture, which has become second-nature to U.S. unions and is arguably the main reason for their current weakness. Leonard Riley’s longshore workers union in Charleston, South Carolina is a different kind of union, however, and On the Global Waterfront by Suzan Erem and Paul Durrenberger tells their gripping story.
