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:: Friday, January 07, 2005 ::
LABOR NEEDS A RADICAL VISION By David Bacon, ILCA Online
A decade ago new leaders were thrust into office in the AFL-CIO - a product of the crisis of falling union density, weakened political power, and a generation of angry labor activists demanding a change in direction. Those ten years have yielded important gains for unions. Big efforts were made to organize - strawberry workers in Watsonville, asbestos workers in New York and New Jersey, poultry and meatpacking workers in the south, and healthcare workers throughout the country. Yet in only one year was the pace of organizing fast enough to keep union density from falling.------------------------------------------- posted 1:21 PM :: reference link ::
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