Labor Vision

This special podcast episode covers the second half of the Rhode Island Labor History Society Panel Discussion “Organizing and Reinventing Unions in the 1970s and 1980s: Stories and Lessons Learned by Those Who Were There” and features panelists Tracy Fitzpatrick, Jim McGetrick, and Reverend Duane Clinker. Tracy Fitzpatrick organized jewelry employees. She served as Assistant Secretary of Labor in Massachusetts under Governor Dukakis and has been a consultant to many unions. She is currently a Life Coach. Jim McGetrick was an organizer for the United Steelworkers of America at Electric Boat, Quonset Point. He taught in Providence as a member of the American Federation of Teachers. He has been a lifelong Irish-American activist. Reverend Duane Clinker served as a Steelworkers’ shop steward at BIF. He headed the Rhode Island Committee on Occupational Safety and Health and was an active participant in the Community Labor Organizing Coalition (CLOC). Presently, he is the Reverend Doctor at the Mathewson Street Un