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:: Friday, December 03, 2004 ::
What Labor Needs: Thousands of New Shop Stewards by Hetty Rosenstein, Labor Notes
Admitting that we need a different model is a good idea. The model set out by the unions who make up the New Unity Partnership, however, consolidates more power and resources into the hands of a few, and it does not respond to the broad range of changes that we need.
SHOP STEWARDS ARE CRUCIAL
In Communications Workers Local 1037, we mirror the employer’s structure by having a union counterpart to management at the worksite—the shop steward. A good steward is essential because the union must exist where workers spend eight or nine hours a day, not in a union office hours away.------------------------------------------- posted 7:31 AM :: reference link ::
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