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The assault on labor : the 1986 TWA strike and the decline on workers' rights in America / Sandra L. Albrecht.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Albrecht, Sandra L., 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Los Angeles International Airport.
- Trans World Airlines.
- Strikes and lockouts--Airlines--California--Los Angeles.
- Strikes and lockouts.
- Labor movement--United States--History--20th century.
- Labor movement.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (247 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]
- Summary:
- The Assault on Labor details the 1986 Independent Federation of Flight Attendants (IFFA) strike against Trans World Airlines (TWA), one of the most dramatic instances of the heightened labor conflict in the 1980s. Using extensive court, union, and company documents, The Assault on Labor shows how the expanded use of permanent replacements in labor disputes has fundamentally altered workers' legal right to strike. Set within one of the biggest corporate raids of the time, it was a strike of a predominantly female labor force that garnered respect throughout the labor movement for its solidarity and determination. Faced with the permanent replacement of over 5000 strikers, IFFA waged a three year struggle to return all workers to the line, mobilizing political, economic, and legal actions to secure their jobs and survive as a union. Despite critical successes in the courts in the aftermath of the strike, the Supreme Court would render a decision that further strengthened permanent replacements. Since the 1980s, labor's major form of protest, the right to strike, has all but disappeared.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Setting the stage : pre-strike events
- Lost chances : unintended consequences of improved conditions
- Things worsen : Carl Icahn enters the picture
- Labor deals with Icahn : white knight or predator?
- Off the line : Strike!
- Strike solidarity and labor discord
- Permanently replaced and the long struggle back
- Legal challenges and the development of labor law
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4985-3771-5
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