Why I’m Confident of Our Union’s Future
Photograph Source: Nancy Pelosi – CC BY 2.0
I’ll always remember how company bosses got red in the face, tried to water down our contract proposals, and made absurd demands for concessions at way too many bargaining sessions over the years.
“You’re not talking to Dave McCall,” I liked to remind them at these moments. “You’re talking to the members of the United Steelworkers.”
It was my way of cutting the bigwigs down to size, of forcing them to focus on the people who really matter—the tough-as-nails...