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A Critical Look at Business Unionism

A Strike by Any Other Name - The way the Southern California Grocery Worker's strike of 2003 was handled speaks volumes about the (dis)organization and orientation of the UFCW--the union representing the grocery workers--and the labor movement in general - By By Natasha Moss-Dedrick, Tuesday, September 28, 2004.

Reutherism Redux - What Happens When Poor Workers' Unions Wear The Color Purple - By Steve Early, Labor Notes, September 2004.

Organize From Below! - A Message to Young People Who Are Considering Taking a Job as a Union Staffer - By Richard Mellor and John Reimann, April 11, 2004.

Flying Squads and the Crisis of Workers' Self-Organization - How tactics and strategy need a broader vision than business unionism - By Alex Levant, March 2003.

SEIU and Antiglobalization Protesters - How Labor Bureaucrats Exploited the Antiglobalization Movement & How to Not Get Fooled Again This Year - February 17, 2003, by an Anonymous SEIU Staffer.

Slaughterhouse Fight: A Look at the Hormel Strike - How Hormel and the UFCW sabotaged Rank & File unionism in the P-9 Strike - By Steve Boyce, Jake Edwards and Tom Wetzel, Summer, 1986.