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Organizing In The Nafta Environment: How Companies Use “Free Trade” To Stop Unions, Kate Bronfenbrenner
Organizing In The Nafta Environment: How Companies Use “Free Trade” To Stop Unions, Kate Bronfenbrenner
Kate Bronfenbrenner
[Excerpt] These findings point to both an enormous challenge and a great opportunity for American unions. Clearly, under NAFTA and other free trade agreements more and more employers will feel emboldened to threaten to close the plant during organizing campaigns, and workers and unions will find organizing increasingly difficult. At the same time, unions have an opportunity to overcome these barriers to organizing if they commit enough resources to run large-scale, aggressive campaigns which mobilize the rank-and-file workers to build a union in their workplace, regardless of the intensity of the employer’s campaign.
Lasting Victories: Successful Union Strategies For Winning First Contracts, Kate Bronfenbrenner
Lasting Victories: Successful Union Strategies For Winning First Contracts, Kate Bronfenbrenner
Kate Bronfenbrenner
[Excerpt] These studies leave no doubt that employers have at their disposal a myriad of legal and illegal tactics which they can use to effectively block union efforts at winning a first agreement. The critical question to be answered is whether the same kind of grassroots, rank-and-file intensive union-building strategies that have been found to be so effective in certification and decertification elections are equally effective in overcoming employer opposition in first contract campaigns.
Successful Union Strategies For Winning Certification Elections And First Contracts: Report To Union Participants (Part 1: Organizing Survey Results), Kate Bronfenbrenner
Successful Union Strategies For Winning Certification Elections And First Contracts: Report To Union Participants (Part 1: Organizing Survey Results), Kate Bronfenbrenner
Kate Bronfenbrenner
Summary of results from 1986-1988 survey of 261 lead organizers conducted by Kate Bronfenbrenner in cooperation with the Organizing Department of the AFL-CIO.
Obits For Labor Unions Are Premature, Kate Bronfenbrenner
Obits For Labor Unions Are Premature, Kate Bronfenbrenner
Kate Bronfenbrenner
[Excerpt] The press recently declared the end of the labor movement. It reported on a major new study by Harvard economist Richard Freeman and Joel Rogers of the University of Wisconsin, suggesting that American workers would prefer cooperative relationships with management to traditional labor unions. Coupled with union membership at less than 16 percent of the work force and a new wave of far-from-pro-labor Republicans marching into Washington, many see this as definitive proof of labor's obsolescence. A more careful analysis, however, reveals that this is far from the truth.
Overcoming The Challenges To Organizing In Manufacturing, Kate Bronfenbrenner, Robert Hickey
Overcoming The Challenges To Organizing In Manufacturing, Kate Bronfenbrenner, Robert Hickey
Kate Bronfenbrenner
[Excerpt] By 2002, the decline of organizing in the U.S. manufacturing sector has reached crisis proportions. In the 1930s it was industrial organizing that built the labor movement and brought a decent standard of living to millions of industrial workers, their families, and communities across the country. Absent intensive efforts to organize the nation's most mobile industries, U.S. workers will lose their only hedge against the worst effects of the global economy, and American manufacturing employers will lead the race to the bottom in workplace democracy, wages, working conditions, and living standards. The American labor movement needs its industrial base …
Successful Union Strategies For Winning Certification Elections And First Contracts: Report To Union Participants (Part 2: First Contract Survey Results), Kate Bronfenbrenner
Successful Union Strategies For Winning Certification Elections And First Contracts: Report To Union Participants (Part 2: First Contract Survey Results), Kate Bronfenbrenner
Kate Bronfenbrenner
Summary of results from 1986-1988 survey of 100 chief negotiators conducted by Kate Bronfenbrenner in cooperation with the Organizing Department of the AFL-CIO.