Labor Supports Hormel Strikers
1985 1985-12Read it in the scan (PDF at ETOL), page 4 →
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Strike Support Committee delivers food to striking Hormel workers in Austin, Minn. workers didn't worry about legal niceties. They knew their livelihood was at stake and acted accordingly, physically preventing the steel from being moved.
Transforming the unions
As setback after setback is registered, some members have come to question whether the trade unions are still capable of defending their interests—or whether it's not time for a "new AFL-CIO" to restore labor to its former power. This has led some rank-and-file activists to turn their backs on existing trade-union structures.
Despite their best intentions, such efforts are doomed to failure. Workers formed into trade unions to defend their wages, benefits, and working conditions. Despite all the weaknesses of their current leadership, these organizations still offer the best defense against the bosses. Rather than work outside the existing trade unions, oppon -ents of concessions must work to force these organizations to act on behalf of their membership. Sociallst Actlon/Lynn Henderson