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Legendary labor organizer Phil Cohen led successful campaigns in the open-shop South for Workers United/SEIU. Charged with galvanizing a local that had lost its edge and accepted defeat, he found ways to fire up the rank-and-file and lead them in collective actions that brought the corporate bosses to the bargaining table. Phil became one of the labor movement’s foremost experts at defeating professional union busters, earning the nickname Ninja Phil for his lightning strikes and fiery pamphlets. He leveraged good contracts with hostile employers, rectified unjust terminations, exposed company schemes to withhold workers comp benefits, and broke the Ku Klux Klan’s grip on a union local.
As Cohen likes to say, “The art of subduing a large corporation involves attacking on multiple fronts simultaneously, in ways they least expect, until executives come to feel like medieval lords trapped in a castle, surrounded by Vikings at every gate.”
Legendary labor organizer Phil Cohen led successful campaigns in the open-shop South for Workers United/SEIU. Charged with galvanizing a local that had lost its edge and accepted defeat, he found ways to fire up the rank-and-file and lead them in collective actions that brought the corporate bosses to the bargaining table. Phil became one of the labor movement’s foremost experts at defeating professional union busters, earning the nickname Ninja Phil for his lightning strikes and fiery pamphlets. He leveraged good contracts with hostile employers, rectified unjust terminations, exposed company schemes to withhold workers comp benefits, and broke the Ku Klux Klan’s grip on a union local.
As Cohen likes to say, “The art of subduing a large corporation involves attacking on multiple fronts simultaneously, in ways they least expect, until executives come to feel like medieval lords trapped in a castle, surrounded by Vikings at every gate.”