Labor Pains: Stories from Inside America's New Union MovementLabor Pains is an insider's account of the struggle to rebuild a vibrant and powerful trade union movement in the United States. It takes as its starting point the daily experience of a union organizer, and brings that experience to life. It enables us to grasp how the conflicting demands of race, class, and gender are lived in the new union movement. |
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... Bevona , the notoriously extravagant president of a 70,000- member union of janitors , that the international could be of some service to the local president . Gus , or “ Mr. Bevona " as he expected his employees to call him , had never ...
... Bevona . The Christmas party was an exercise in New York Italian excess . More than five hundred people were invited to the bash , which the union held at a local banquet facility large enough to accommodate ten Italian wed- dings at ...
... Bevona ! " I exclaimed , practically shouting it down the hall . " Shh , not everyone knows I'm here yet . Look , I didn't see this coming , but this means probably six months or more here in New York , so the local is going to have to ...