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:: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 ::
Come Together Right Now: Labor unions reconfigure to battle huge multinationals By David Moberg, In These Times
Since last fall, organized labor has urgently focused on defeating George Bush—described by AFL-CIO president John Sweeney as “the worst president we’ve had to deal with.” Even if Kerry should win, the labor movement faces a wrenching debate over its future starting the day after the election.
Despite Sweeney’s reform victory nearly a decade ago, the labor movement has made progress mainly in its political work, not in the crucial task of organizing in a globalized economy where many workers’ jobs are moved out of the country and U.S. workers increasingly face powerful multinational corporations.------------------------------------------- posted 6:23 AM :: reference link ::
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