As more than 1,000 labor union activists gathered in Dearborn, Mich., last weekend for the biennial conference organized by the magazine, Labor Notes, a passionate argument between competing health care unions coursed through the meeting. But by evening, the dispute turned ugly and physical. And the [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Boo hiss. How is this article any different than the hue-and-cries of sex scandals?! This is a divisive article. Especially so given that ITT can’t seem to muster much coverage of labor organizing as it is. It only serves to highlight and underline one meme: “unions are unstable.” So what if there is this kind of dispute; there was no bloodshed, just rubber-necking.
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