On the future of trade unionism by Dick Howard
It should have been the time for a celebration of the golden anniversary of a calculated mariage de raison that had endured in spite of sometimes serious disagreements. Instead, the couple created in 1955 by the fusion of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (the AFL-CIO) has experienced a separation that will certainly lead to a bitter divorce. Two of the largest of the federated unions refused to participate in the quadrennial convention that took place from July 25 to July 28 in Chicago; and the departure of others will surely follow in the immediate future. Superficially, since the leader of the dissidents, Andrew Stern (54 years old) had been the prot
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