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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 ::
Unions try new strategies to bolster membership The state's carpenters unions have also refocused their organizing efforts in the past few years - which has boosted membership by about 10 percent to 23,000, said Ralph Mabry, executive secretary/treasurer of the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters and Millwrights.
In the mid-'90s, the council consolidated some locals and recruited more aggressively, Mabry said. Union leaders now troll construction sites, talking with workers and builders.
"We'll organize anybody that's out there," he said. "Before, they seemed to go after the bigger players."
The carpenters union is also targeting the younger crowd, offering new pre-apprenticeship programs in high schools.------------------------------------------- posted 4:31 PM :: reference link ::
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