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    :: Saturday, March 04, 2006 ::

    The End of an Era for Labor - Global Labor Strategies
    Unless unions radically alter their conventional strategies, the future of trade unionism in the US is bleak. A narrow focus on collective bargaining as a way to expand and preserve wages, working conditions, and economic security is not enough in the age of aggressive global corporate capitalism. That is the sub-text of a chilling article that appeared in Sunday's New York Times (February 26, 2006)
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