In the Magazines

In the Magazines

Union Democracy Review, No. 1, Fall 1972.

Unfortunately, few people except unionists know or care much about the internal life of the American labor movement. For those who are interested, Herman Benson’s new Union Democracy Review is a must. A publication of the Association for Union Democracy, the Review‘s purpose is to promote the “principles and practices of internal union democracy in the American labor movement,” and to report on the efforts of unionists to exercise their democratic rights.

The first issue carries a report on the Supreme Court’s January 17, 1972, decision (Trbovich v. United Mine Workers). The decision gives dissident union members the ...