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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Friday, March 14, 2003 ::
ZNet | A Movement for Workplace Democracy? Last week we learned about another hit to democracy. This time, however, it wasn't Bush coercing some government to join his war-drive against the will of that country's people. Instead, it was another drop in the U.S. unionization rate.
According to the N.Y. Times, the number of unionized American jobs dropped by 280,000 to 16.1 million last year (Feb 26). Since the mid 1950s when the U.S. unionization rate hit a high of 53% it has steadily dropped to its current level of around 13%. A central function of unions is to increase workplace democracy. Through collective bargaining, unions offer workers some way to fight for a fair share of the fruits of their labor. Similarly, unions provide workers with some space and protection from arbitrary employer action. In fact, collective worker action is the most effective device at adding some democracy to the modern un-democratic corporation.------------------------------------------- posted 7:24 PM :: reference link ::
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