RISING TO THE OCCASION: Strike Support for Nabisco Workers

Partridge saw favorable conditions that would enable supporters to make an impact: * A SUITABLE TARGET Here was a popular national brand, fresh off a year of record profits, demanding that union members sell out their future coworkers by agreeing to require new hires to pay more than current employees do for health insurance, setting up what's known as a two-tier system. By the time the strike began, Portland DSA had built a large and spirited Labor Working Group, but the chapter had just had a demoralizing faction fight so acrimonious that the national convention censured and removed some steering committee members as delegates. [...]Nabisco dropped its demand for the twotier wage scale, and the strike ended.