Why the Insurgents Lost in Steel

Months, even years will pass before the dust settles over the issues raised by the Steelworkers’ 1977 International union election. Lloyd McBride, the candidate representing the union’s incumbent administration, clearly has won a convincing electoral victory by amassing some 58 percent of the total vote. Still, at least 238,000 Steelworkers in the U.S. and Canada did vote for the insurgent slate headed by Ed Sadlowski. This fact, and the very bitterness of the campaign, requires t...