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:: Thursday, December 30, 2004 ::
LABOR TO PUSH ORGANIZING--HARD By Mark Gruenberg, ILCA Online
Though there has been progress in increasing unions' organizing capacity, Acuff says not all unions achieved that goal. He rattles off the list of unions that were in the forefront of organizing five years ago--SEIU, HERE, UNITE, the Laborers, CWA and AFSCME, and that's it.
Now, he says, you can add the Steel Workers, Teamsters, the Roofers, the Teachers, IBEW, the Iron Workers, UAW, the Mine Workers, ILWU and GCIU 'and the Machinists just devoted a big chunk of their budget to break new organizing ground.'
That leaves yet another new task for Acuff and the Organizing Department he heads: 'Bringing the whole labor movement to big fights that are greater than just one union.'------------------------------------------- posted 11:20 AM :: reference link ::
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