Home > LRR > Vol. 1 > No. 1 (1982)
Article Title
Abstract
[Excerpt] In the Spring of 1982, a small local union took on a conglomerate giant and won. What initially appeared as a battle over concessions at Morse Cutting Tool, a subsidiary of Gulf+Western in New Bedford, Massachusetts, became a broad-based community/labor fight against the rights of capital. Careful research by the Industrial Cooperative Association (ICA) documented G+W's disinvestment and kept the company on the defensive for the strike's thirteen-week duration. The victory of United Electrical Workers Union Local 277 showed that imaginative leadership and militant unionists can overcome corporate power even in the midst of a new depression. This strike deserves close study by all those interested in the labor movement.
Recommended Citation
Swinney, Dan
(1982)
"UE Local 277's Strike at Morse Cutting Tool,"
Labor Research Review:
Vol. 1:
No.
1, Article 4.
Available at:
http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/lrr/vol1/iss1/4