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wrote the book is to sound
the alarm that there’s been
a real decline of worker
power overall,” Greenhouse,
who spent some two dec-
ades covering labor for the
New York Times, told me
recently. “Things have tilted
very much in favor of corpo-
rations and the wealthy
instead of workers.” Con-
gress enacted a huge tax cut
for the rich in 2017, but hasn’t
budged on moving the fed-
eral minimum wage above
$7.25.
“We’re seeing Donald
Trump, who promised to
help workers, taking away
overtime protections and
scrapping the fiduciary rule
to protect workers’ 401(k)s.
Young Americans don’t
understand the importance
of unions and worker
power.”
Even if the 2000s are a
period of less than unal-
loyed glory for organized
labor, we may be entering
another golden age of labor
historiography. Green-
house’s book comes on the
heels of historian Erik
Loomis’ book “A History of
America in Ten Strikes,”
which we wrote about in
February. (They cover some
of the same events, includ-
ing the Flint sit-down strike
against General Motors in
the mid-1930s and the disas-
trous PATCO strike of air
traffic controllers in 1981.)
They’re filling a gap left
since the heydays of Melvyn
Dubofsky in the 1990s and
Irving Bernstein of UCLA,
whose three volumes of U.S.
labor history in the 20th
century appeared from 1960
to 1985.
Greenhouse’s book
chronicles the rise of organ-
ized labor in the first half of
the 20th century and its
dizzying fall in the following
decades. The rise was fueled
by a worker solidarity born
of the atrocious working
conditions of garment
sweatshops in New York,
punctuated by lethal epi-
sodes such as the Triangle
Shirtwaist Co. fire of 1911,
which took the lives of 146
workers, including 123 wom-
en. The New Deal brought
concrete protection for
collective bargaining
through the National Labor
Relations Act of 1935.
Wartime employers
negotiated for labor peace
in the name of efficient
production of materiel, and
the economic prosperity
that followed the end of
World War II gave employ-
ees and employers alike an
incentive to build on mutual
goodwill.
Walter Reuther, a target
of the infamous River Rouge
assault by Ford Motor Co.
thugs in 1937, had become
head of the United Auto
Workers’ General Motors
department.
Reuther and GM boss
Charlie Wilson reached a
groundbreaking five-year
contract in 1950 — the
“Treaty of Detroit” — in-
cluding then-unusual pen-
sion and health benefits. As
Greenhouse observes, the
contract became a building
block of the postwar Ameri-
can middle class.
The dream eventually
faded. Greenhouse, like
Loomis, sees the PATCO
strike as a dismal turning
point for American labor.
Since history is written by
the victors, the public im-
pression of the striking air
traffic controllers is of
grasping workers whoflouted federal law forbid-
ding government employees
to walk off the job while
demanding a contract far
more generous than other
employees could win.
There’s plenty of truth in
the impression, but what is
generally forgotten today is
that the controllers worked
under unbelievably stressful
conditions and that the
Federal Aviation Adminis-
tration had reneged on
promised improvements.
Still, PATCO misplayed a
bad hand. The union never
took steps to win fellow
aviation unions, much less
the public, over to its side.
The all-important Air
Line Pilots Assn. crossed
PATCO’s picket lines, which
shattered its hopes of bring-
ing air traffic to a halt. The
public was irked by the
inconveniences of flight
delays and cancellations in
the first days of the strike,
and treated President
Reagan as a savior when he
got air travel back up to
speed in short order, using
military air controllers,
renegade PATCO members
and supervisors.
Most destructively,
PATCO misjudged Reagan,
who needed to show firm-
ness in the first major crisis
of his fledgling adminis-
tration. He threatened to
fire every striker — and did
so. “The union walked
straight into the firing
squad and Reagan was
happy to oblige them,”
Greenhouse says.
PATCO’s failure didn’t
only damage itself. The sea
change in management
treatment of organized
labor reverberates to this
very day. “That really em-
boldened managements to
get tough. They saw the
president of the United
States bust a union and
thought, ‘Why can’t we do
the same thing?’ ” The
strike “really changed the
mood and the methods that
management used in deal-
ing with their unions and
their workers.”
Things have only gotten
worse since then. “In no
other industrial nation do
employers fight so hard
to defeat, indeed quash,
labor unions,” Greenhouse
says.
Even foreign employers
that coexist peacefully with
labor at home have been
confounded by corporate
and political hostility to
unions in the U.S. Volks-
wagen discovered that in
2014, when it took a hands-
off approach — in fact, even
a positive approach — to an
effort by the United Auto
Workers to organize a VW
plant in Chattanooga.
“Volkswagen considers
its corporate culture ofworks councils a competi-
tive advantage,” a VW exe-
cutive said at the time. But
Tennessee’s Republican
establishment, in the form
of Gov. Bill Haslam and Sen.
Bob Corker, a former Chat-
tanooga mayor, picked up
the slack, even threatening
the company with retribu-
tion if the unionization vote
succeeded. It failed, nar-
rowly, as did a second vote
this June.
The consequence of this
four-decade trend is the loss
of the worker’s voice in the
workplace and American
politics. Opinion polls show
that an overwhelming ma-
jority of Americans favor a
higher minimum wage, paid
sick days and paid family
leave, but they’re not hap-
pening at the federal level
because organized labor’s
voice is drowned out by the
money and political clout of
corporations.
The glimmers of hope
come from union move-
ments that attract popular
backing and “achieve gains
not just for themselves but
for the public at large,” such
as the teacher strikes. “Suc-
cessful strikes beget, en-
courage and inspire other
successful strikes,” Green-
house says.
Another piece of the
puzzle is politics. The
Democratic Party neglected
the ties with organized labor
that had been forged in the
New Deal, which Green-
house argues contributed to
the electoral disaster of 2016.
In that election, he ob-
serves, Hillary Clinton lost
three states — Wisconsin,
Michigan and Pennsylvania
— that had been traditional
labor strongholds. “If
unions hadn’t grown so
weak and the Democratic
Party had done more to
keep unions from declining,
maybe they would have won
those three states.”
Indeed, union member-
ship in Wisconsin, once the
fount of progressive politi-
cal thought, declined from
15% in 2008 to 8.1% in 2018,
bringing the rate from
above the national average
to below the national aver-
age in a single awful decade.
An increased awareness
of the consequences of
unions’ decline, such as
income inequality, stagnant
wages and deteriorating
working conditions, seems
to be energizing the Demo-
cratic candidates for presi-
dent. But the road back to
labor’s health will be a long
one.Keep up to date with
Michael Hiltzik. Follow
@hiltzikm on Twitter, see
his Facebook page, or email
michael.hiltzik
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mostly bleak news
THE STRIKE in 1981 by federal air traffic control-
lers is considered a disaster for labor unions.New York Daily News[Hiltzik, from C1]Stephen Ross, the bil-
lionaire owner of the Miami
Dolphins and an investor in
Equinox gyms and SoulCy-
cle, is drawing flak from in-
side his own businesses for
hosting a fundraiser for
President Trump.
SoulCycle Chief Execu-
tive Melanie Whelan sought
to distance the company
from Ross as calls for boy-
cotts spread on social me-
dia. The furor was over a re-
ported fundraiser to be
hosted by Ross in the Hamp-
tons — where attendees will
pay $250,000 for lunch, a
photo and private round-ta-ble discussion. “We believe in
diversity, inclusion and
equality,” Whelan said on
Twitter. “Mr. Ross is a pas-
sive investor and is not in-
volved in the management of
SoulCycle.” Equinox issued
a similar statement.
Neither Related Cos., the
real estate firm where Ross
is chairman, nor the Dol-
phins immediately respond-
ed to requests for comment.
Kenny Stills, a Dolphins
receiver, tweeted that the re-
ported Hamptons fundrais-
er was inconsistent with ef-
forts to fight racial inequal-
ity. Ross has a nonprofit
called the Ross Initiative in
Sports for Equality with a
stated mission of champi-
oning social justice and im-
proving race relations.
Ross was not one of the
nine NFL owners who re-
portedly contributed to
Trump’s original campaign,or to his inauguration. The
NFL has often been at odds
with the president, includ-
ing a row in 2017 over the
league’s handling of players
who chose to protest during
the national anthem.
The Trump event, re-
ported in the Washington
Post, also prompted a back-
lash against Equinox, with
comedian Billy Eichner
among those who were can-
celing their Equinox mem-
berships. “There are a hand-
ful of billionaires who own
everything and many sup-
port Trump,” he tweeted.
“Practically speaking, it’s
probably impossible to com-
pletely avoid them. But con-
sidering Equinox’s clientele
and how they’ve pandered to
us, this one feels particularly
hypocritical and shameful.”Turner writes for
Bloomberg.Furor over investor’s Trump ties
Equinox, SoulCycle
face backlash over
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commenced a proceeding in the above-named court
againsttheabove-nameddefendants.
Thepurposeoftheproceedingisthecondemnationand
taking of a fee simple interest absolute in the real
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The real property which is subject to and affected by
this action in situated in Los Angeles County,
California, and described as follows: APN 3275-021-
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The names of the parties who may have an interest in
the real property are: Hector Lopez, Maura Lopez,
Armando Funes, and Ruth M. Funes; Southern
California Edison Company, State of California,
Franchise Tax Board; DOES 1 through 10, inclusive;
and all persons unknown claiming an interest in the
propertydescribedinthecomplaint.
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