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:: Monday, November 22, 2004 ::
How steelworkers union learned to cope with new realities By FRED O. WILLIAMS, Buffalo News
Under pressure from global trade, the steelworkers and other industrial unions have ushered in sweeping changes in labor-management relations, said Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of labor education research at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Paper workers, apparel worker unions and others based in declining sectors have also changed their negotiating strategies, she said.
Some 39 percent of jobs moving overseas are unionized, putting unions' own survival at risk. 'Employers have this incredible threat they're holding over (unions') heads,' she said.------------------------------------------- posted 7:02 AM :: reference link ::
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