楼主辛苦了，你说的这篇阅读好像GWD里面的，请确认一下是否为这篇：
In the 1930’s and1940’s, African American industrial workers in the southern United States, who constituted 80percent of the unskilled factory labor force there, strongly supported unionization.While the American Federation of Labor (AFL) either excluded African Americansor maintained racially segregated unions, the Congress of IndustrialOrganizations (CIO) organized integrated unions nationwide on the basis of astated policy of equal rights for all, and African American unionists providedthe CIO’s backbone. Yet it can be argued that through contracts negotiated andenforced by White union members, unions—CIO unions not excluded—were ofteninstrumental in maintaining the occupational segregation and other forms ofracial discrimination that kept African Americans socially and economicallyoppressed during this period. However, recognizing employers’ power overworkers as a central factor in African Americans’ economic marginal unionization,African American workers saw the need to join with White workers in seekingchange despite White unionists’ toleration of or support for racialdiscrimination. The persistent efforts of African American unionists eventuallypaid off: many became highly effective organizers, gaining the respect of evenracist White unionists by winning victories for White as well as AfricanAmerican workers. African American unionists thus succeeded in strengtheningthe unions while using them as instruments of African Americans’ economicempowerment.
-- by 会员 XYXB (2010/2/26 14:54:15)