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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 ::
Fight Over Future of Labor Start Labor Blog
SEIU has officially launched its challenge to thes AFL-CIO on how to organize the labor movement for the future. It's called Unite to Win, a website that will be the center for discussion and debate on what labor needs to win.
The starting point is the challenge facing labor laid out by SEIU President Andy Stern:
When 1 in 3 workers were in a union when the AFL-CIO was founded 50 years ago, union wages and benefits brought everyone up.
But since then, unions have represented a decreasing percentage of the workforce. They have been growing smaller instead of growing stronger.
Today, only 1 in 12 private sector workers are in unions. Workers in our country are divided not only into red and blue states, but into union and non-union states (and you won't be surprised that they are pretty much identical).------------------------------------------- posted 6:56 AM :: reference link ::
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