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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Saturday, July 26, 2003 ::
Labor's Weight Beyond Its Numbers (washingtonpost.com) The U.S. labor movement is slipping into a final agony. That's the buzz after each year's Labor Department news showing a falling percentage of American workers belonging to unions. The latest report said 13.2 percent of workers were union members in 2002, down from 13.5 percent in 2001.
This 'density' figure began dropping from 35 percent in the 1950s. It slipped below 20 percent in the 1980s at a time of wrenching corporate restructuring. Since then the drip, drip, drip of annual falling membership figures tortures labor advocates. Is it the sound of blood?
No. The union movement is still a vital wellspring in American social life. It flows up from more than 16 million workers who belong to unions, from thousands more forming new unions each year and from millions more who appreciate what unions do.------------------------------------------- posted 9:59 AM :: reference link ::
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