Back in the day, when I was an active Union representative in a virtually all White industry, I certainly ran into more than my share of racism among Union members. And I certainly attended more than a few executive Union meetings where the head table was peopled exclusively by old White men. But the reason I became and remain a dedicated and convinced union loyalist is because of Union leaders and members like the then President of the United Mine Workers Union, Richard Trumpka, as well as men like my mentor, Chuck Dale, past International President of The Newspaper Guild.
The Union movement has long ago learned that divisions of race, gender, class, education, etc., were all too frequently exploited to keep the have not's, having not! And the most effective response to organized capital was organized labor.
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