Trouble in Paradise: When Staff Strife Gets Serious
June 2, 2021 One of Sylvester Stallone’s early movie roles was as a union organizer for FIST—a clever acronym for the fictitious Federation of Interstate Truckers. Meant as a rough allusion to the real-life Teamsters, the film portrays the early years of unionization in America, including all that went with it: violence by the owners, violence by the unions, and hard-nosed negotiations. In the end, Sly’s character morphs from a once idealistic champion of the little man to a jaded…