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Various labor union staff members, "Multi-Union Growth Partnership," New Unity Partnership, 2003 (rankfile.net)
Ever since the 1950s, a combination of a less-friendly legal environment, internal corruption, economic change, and growing government control over workplace regulation has sent American organized labor into a steep decline. While about a third of the workforce belonged to unions in 1956, less than 15 percent does today. John Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO, has swung the massive labor federation hard to the left but has no membership gains to show for it.
In an effort to improve organized labor's standing, the heads of five major unions (ranging from the Service Employees International Union to the Carpenters Union), meeting during late 2003, agreed to form the New Unity Partnership in an effort to expand the American labor movement.
According to the outline from the organizers' meeting, the partnership will hire ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Labor moves rightward?(Economics And Regulation)