Labor Studies Journal articles from March 1999

Labor Studies Journal archives from March 1999

Keynote address, 1998 UCLEA/AFL-CIO education conference.(speech by AFL-CIO Education Department Director Bill Fletcher Jr)
March 22, 1999... Good morning, sisters and brothers. I want to begin my presentation with a number: 358. Three hundred fifty-eight people on this planet of ours have a total combined wealth greater than the poorest 45 percent of the world's population. That's...

Organizing immigrant workers in New York City: the LIUNA asbestos removal workers campaign.(Laborers International Union of North America)
March 22, 1999... At first glance, the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) campaign might seem to have been doomed from the start. Two years previously, in November 1994, the union was placed under trusteeship by the U.S. District Court in...

UNITE's victory at Richmark: community-based union organizing in communities of color.
March 22, 1999... The catalog for Country Curtains - a sea of calicos, checks, and soft pastels - lists its address as the Red Lion Inn in historic Stockbridge, Massachusetts, a quaint, picturesque town in the Berkshires. based on the interiors in which the...

Teaching organizing through workers' experiences.
March 22, 1999... The Critical Link between Organizing and Education No one concerned about the long-term fate of our labor movement would disagree with the need to organize workers. U.S. union density has declined from 35 percent in 1955 to 14.9 percent...

The Teamsters' UPS strike of 1997: building a new labor movement.
March 22, 1999... Twelve days into the two-week, nationwide United Parcel Service strike in August 1997, fifty workers at the RDS package delivery company in Cincinnati voted to join the Teamsters Union. The company tried to talk them out of it, asking why they...

The CWA model of membership-based organizing.(Communications Workers of America)
March 22, 1999... As unions attempt to massively organize the unorganized, they need to pay attention to the way they go about it. Doing what unions have done in the past, only doing more of it, will provide only limited gains. Research demonstrates that...

Cross-border organizing in the apparel industry: lessons from Central America and the Caribbean.
March 22, 1999... In the 1990s, as U.S. unions rediscovered the importance of corporate campaigns and organizing, they also began to question protectionism and to grapple with the complexities of organizing abroad. Moving beyond the approaches of organizations...

Global unionism - beyond the rhetoric: the CWA North America Alliance.
March 22, 1999... This article addresses the opportunities and challenges facing U.S. labor organizations that seek to build a long-term, strategic, international capacity. The transformation of U.S. unions into global organizations represents one of the most...