DOCK WORKERS BACK TO WORK: IT WAS PEER PRESSURE THAN ENDED THIS STRIKE

DOCK WORKER STRIKE ENDED BY PEER PRESSURE
It was neighbors, friends, and family that pressured dockworkers.

It was peer pressure from everyone around them that brought the rank-and-file back to work. Despite the Union Boss’s intent to ‘crush the economy’, union members lobbied leadership to get back to work as quickly as possible.

Church members, club members, brothers and sisters all began to press these laborers to get back to work. The union members in turn pressured the union.

Far too many of these ‘high six-figure’ wage earners found nothing but resistance, anger, and even hatred by those who are struggling under the Harris economy. “Where do you get off with such demands when the rest of us are struggling?” is a question heard by many a union member.

This goes to show that a grass roots pressure movement can get things done.

I’m Max, and that’s the way I see it!