WASHINGTON — Labor Day 2005 comes at a time of turmoil and paradox for unions. Most are getting smaller and less influential even as new polls show increasing public sympathy toward them.
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For years, labor unions have focused on issues like pensions and job security. The workforce is changing. The interests and desires of today's workers are significantly different than those that fueled the organized labor movement. ... So, what does this say about the future of organized labor?
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Indeed, a basic democratic industrial principle is the impossibility of having free and democratic societies without free and democratic labor organizations. In this volume of essays, leading union, management, and academic experts with diverse views examine the future of unions.
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Ray LaJeunesse's remarks were made at the Federalist Society's annual Lawyers Convention in Washington, D.C. on November 12, 1998 at the Labor and Employment Practice Group's panel on the Future of Unions. The panel was moderated by practice group subcommittee chairman John Irving, with the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis.
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Can labor unions survive? Not if their leaders don't represent them. ... Labor unions have been their own worst enemy for much of their history in not proactively reaching out to people of color and women. Tensions between the two largest groups, blacks and Latinos, often divide workers who desire the same things—secure...
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In a number of cities, unions in various trades joined together in citywide federations. The Nation Labor Union, (actually a federation- an organization of local unions) formed in 1866. The NLU eventually persuaded Congress to pass an eight hour day for Federal workers.
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Can labor unions survive? Not if their leaders don't represent them. ... "With all these new members coming in … this is our farm team for the future," Medina says.
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Modern corporations roam the world looking for low labor costs, lax regulations, and weak labor unions. This pits workers ... The future needs something new in the way of a theory/philosophy of history that can base the idea of the left in something more than the Leninist distortions and revolutionary adventurism.
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