Wednesday, June 1, 2022

The Gospel of Organizing" Unionizing in the long shadow of the Gilded Age

Daisy Pitkin,  The Gospel of Organizing: Unionizing in the long shadow of the Gilded Age* The Baffler. April 12, 2022.

It is the middle of December 2021, and last week, on the seventh, approximately three hundred workers at this library and at eighteen other Carnegie branches across Pittsburgh reached a tentative agreement on their first union contract. The workers won the right to bargain this agreement after a majority of them voted to join the United Steelworkers, an offshoot of a union that, 130 years earlier, was nearly crushed by Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, chairman and chief executive of Carnegie Steel. The United Steelworkers now reaches far beyond the dwindling American steel industry and welcomes most of its new members from sectors like higher ed, health care, tech, and cultural institutions.


Daisy Pitkin,  The Gospel of Organizing: Unionizing in the long shadow of the Gilded AgeThe Baffler. April 12, 2022. 


*Thanks to Jessamyn West who highlighted this article in TILT #98

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