Jimmy Carter Was No Friend of Union Workers Like Me
As a worker in the 1970s, I looked forward to a Jimmy Carter administration. By the end of his term in office, like millions of my union sisters and brothers, I felt betrayed.
3 Articles by: Chris Townsend
Chris Townsend was the United Electrical Workers (UE) Washington representative and the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) international union organizing director.
Salting Wouldn’t Be Necessary If Employers Didn’t Union Bust
The US workplace is a private dictatorship where bosses exercise extraordinary power and systematically union bust. “Salting,” or getting a job with the intent to organize a workplace, is a completely justifiable response to this workplace despotism.
Why Workers Everywhere Should Read Labor’s Untold Story
Reading and study are required for militants in any labor union. And there are few better resources for telling the heroic story of American class struggle to workers today than the classic labor history book Labor’s Untold Story.