The promotion of Dougherty within the context of the writers’ strike is a media operation, aimed at falsely promoting her and other union bureaucrats as militant workers’ leaders in order to rein in a rank-and-file challenge from below.
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After decades in a rut, the US labor movement appears to be reinvigorated. At the Labor Notes conference in Chicago, labor leaders wanted to ensure it's a true upsurge and not just a blip, as Teddy Ostrow reports.