UE Local 277's Strike at Morse Cutting Tool
| dc.contributor.author | Swinney, Dan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-09T02:33:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-12-09T02:33:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1982-09-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | [Excerpt] In the Spring of 1982, a small local union took on a conglomerate giant and won. What initially appeared as a battle over concessions at Morse Cutting Tool, a subsidiary of Gulf+Western in New Bedford, Massachusetts, became a broad-based community/labor fight against the rights of capital. Careful research by the Industrial Cooperative Association (ICA) documented G+W's disinvestment and kept the company on the defensive for the strike's thirteen-week duration. The victory of United Electrical Workers Union Local 277 showed that imaginative leadership and militant unionists can overcome corporate power even in the midst of a new depression. This strike deserves close study by all those interested in the labor movement. | |
| dc.description.legacydownloads | Issue_1____Article_1.pdf: 565 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020. | |
| dc.identifier.other | 1123376 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1813/102403 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Labor Research Review | |
| dc.subject | Morse Cutting Tool | |
| dc.subject | Gulf+Western | |
| dc.subject | Industrial Cooperative Association | |
| dc.subject | ICA | |
| dc.subject | UEW | |
| dc.title | UE Local 277's Strike at Morse Cutting Tool | |
| dc.type | article | |
| schema.issueNumber | Vol. 1, Num. 1 |
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