Title: Union Power
Description: An empowering history told from below, showing that the collective efforts of the many can challenge the supremacy of the few. Erie's two UE locals confronted a daunting array of obstacles: the corporate superpower General Electric; ferocious red-baiting; and later, the debilitating impact of globalization. Yet, by working through and across ethnic, gender, and racial divides, communities of people built a viable working-class base powered by real democracy. While the union's victories could not be sustained completely, the UE is still alive and fighting in Erie. Young provides a testament to this fight, and a reminder to every worker--employed or unemployed; in a union or out--that an injury to one is an injury to all. --From publisher description.
Subjects: Pennsylvania, politics and government, Electric industry workers, Labor unions, History, Gewerkschaft, Elektrotechnische Industrie, Arbeiter, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America. Local 506 (Erie, Pa.), Radio and Machine Workers of America United Electrical