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Green, Philip | January 6, 1992 issue

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Leader of labor movement Ron Carey's sensational victory over a hulking establishment in the Teamsters union is predictably being hailed as a David and Goliath story. Power approves such stories, which, by their rarity, affirm as natural a state of affairs mostly impervious to upstart challenges. Change would not have come so swiftly without government intervention, but neither would Carey now be president without Teamsters for a Democratic Union, the insurgent caucus that insisted the government authorize direct election of the union's leaders instead of a plan for federal trusteeship. Democratic first steps and rank-and-file movements are not yet enough to turn things around for labor.

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CAREY, Ron; POLITICS, Practical; LABOR movement; DEMOCRACY; SOCIAL movements
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