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:: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 ::
Offshoring may revitalize labor movement By T.A. BADGER, AP/Buffalo News
Labor organizer Banks said the CWA's success with SBC is an important lesson for other unions.
'If we have enough examples where people are winning the outsourcing issue, why wouldn't people turn to unions?' he said. 'It can be the one issue that can revitalize the labor movement.'
Banks said offshoring work was a key issue that helped his union recently organize 250 engineers and architects employed by the city of San Jose, Calif. He said a drive to organize engineers will start soon in Seattle.
Gentry, the laid-off programmer, said he overcame a deep aversion to unions to become an active part of the Washington Alliance of Technical Workers.
'I thought these guys are trying to do what's right,' he said. 'I don't know if it'll do much good, but I feel like I'm doing something.'------------------------------------------- posted 7:04 AM :: reference link ::
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