The Resignation of Douglas Fraser

This past July Douglas Fraser, president of the United Automobile Workers Union, announced that he was pulling out of the high-level Labor- Management Group of union and business leaders presided over by former Secretary of Labor John Dunlop, because in Fraser’s view American capitalism had declared open war on the trade unions.

The Labor-Management Group was established by John Dunlop when he served as secretary of labor under Gerald Ford. When Dunlop resigned in protes...