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:: Thursday, August 17, 2006 ::
Day laborers present challenges for unions - By PETER PRENGAMAN/AP, Seattle Post Intelligencer
Unions are increasingly courting immigrant day laborers in hopes of reversing a longtime decline in membership and clout.
But labor experts say organizing a work force that is mobile and largely undocumented presents enormous logistical challenges and risks of alienating rank-and-file members.
'Every day there are day laborers who walk in and say, 'I want a union,' ' said Janice Fine, a labor professor at Rutgers University. 'But the road to getting one is almost an impossible journey.'------------------------------------------- posted 7:24 AM :: reference link ::
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