Insurgency in the Steel Union

“Freedom is a hard-won thing. You’ve got to work for it, fight for it, day and night for it, and every generation’s got to win it again.” The newest enactment of this political theme is unfolding in the United Steelworkers of America, where a young generation of leaders, up from the rank and file and gathered behind the banner of union democracy, has toppled an autocratic regional regime that had held power since 1937. And this may be only the beginning.

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