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Among the reasons: the American Federation of Labor pushed aside those who sought to overturn capitalism and the Teamsters’ Dave Beck, who designed “a brilliant strategy of business unionism that promised profits and reduced competition to employers in exchange for good wages … for workers.”

This is the underlying basis for the "business unionism" that's been so damaging to the labor movement.

This is representative of a model of business unionism that many have openly critiqued in the UAW, namely the assumption that the interests of employers are one and the same as the interests of employees.”

“Strategies of backroom deals and political negotiations–the failed model of ‘business unionism,’ which still dominates the labor movement today–have left rank-and-file members demobilized and union leaders without much leverage,” writes New York City educator and writer Megan Behrent.

But over and above these changes in structure there hovered a new spirit, a spirit of class struggle and of revolutionary solidarity in contrast with the spirit of "business unionism" of the typical craft union.