Teamster Set Author_Rosa Luxemburg Soviet poster with full pledge

Soviet poster with full pledge taken by members of the Red Army

” he explained

The rise of the CIO—the Congress of Industrial Organizations—in the early 1930s transformed the labor movement in the United States and left an indelible imprint on the subsequent course and development of the trade unions

deliberately buried beneath a mountain of falsehoods and distortions

Teamster Set Author_Rosa Luxemburg Soviet poster with full pledgeFrom May to August of 1934, Minneapolis was rocked by a strike that would forever change the course of US labor history. This was the strike of Teamsters Local 574, a union led by Trotskyists. Many of the best techniques used by organized labor today find their origins in the Minneapolis Strike. However, the strikes greatest conquest was in laying the foundations for industrial unionism in North America, leading to the formation of the Congress of