Mike Quill

By Frederic P. Miller

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Michael J. Quill (19051966) was one of the founders of the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU), a union founded by subway workers in New York City that expanded to represent employees in other forms of transit, and the President of the TWU for most of the first thirty years of its existence. A close ally of the Communist Party USA for the first twelve years of his leadership of the union, he broke with it in 1948. He drove his former allies out of the union. Quill had varying relations with the mayors of New York City. He was a personal friend of Robert Wagner but could find no common ground with Wagner's successor, John Lindsay, or as Quill called him Linsley, and led a twelve-day transit strike in 1966 against him that landed him in jail. However, he won significant wage increases for his members. He died of a heart attack three days after the end of the strike.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 613162688X
• ISBN13: 9786131626883
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: AV Akademikerverlag GmbH & Co. KG
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.7" x 0.3" x 5.9"