Add to ORKGAs the AFL-CIO approached its twenty-fifth biennial convention in July 2005, seven unions formed a new Change to Win (CTW) coalition to challenge the federation for lead position as the voice of the labor movement. These unions, most of which have disaffiliated from the AFL-CIO, formed the CTW to demonstrate their unsparing discontent with John Sweeney's leadership of the federation. We examine the reasons for the current breach in the house of labor, the competing visions offered by the AFL-CIO and CTW, and the likelihood that the CTW's strategy will revive unions. We find that the gulf between the two factions is philosophically deep and practically irreconcilable. The CTW advocates an "engineered breakthrough" approach to revitalize labo...
In the last seven years the AFL-CIO has put forth an immense effort to facilitate, support, and enco...
This article addresses the question of how social movement organ-izations are able to break out of b...
This paper examines a key shift within the U.S. labor movement in the 20th century, whereby the work...
ii In July 2005, six unions withdrew from the central labour federation in the United States, the AF...
Organizing has been at the heart of union strategy discussions for twenty years; it became labor’s t...
In summer 2005, the trade union movement formalised its split into two rival confederations. The spl...
THE dramatic ouster of the Teamsters, Bakery Workers, and other corrupt unions from the AFL-CIO, for...
[Excerpt] The stark reality of the continuing decline of U.S. unions has precipitated an intense feu...
Following the enactment of the NLRA in 1935, American Federation of Labor craft unions had difficult...
For many years, US trade unions declined in union density, organizing capacity, level of strike acti...
Australian union membership declined at over one per cent per annum through the 1990s, and unions no...
Union membership, as a percentage of the private sector workforce, has been in decline for 50 years....
In the 1990s the labor movement underwent a major transformation in an attempt to confront the chall...
The labor movement in the United States is in trouble. This fact is now widely accepted even by lead...
Analysis of the role of structural change in labor movement revitalization is presented as part of a...
In the last seven years the AFL-CIO has put forth an immense effort to facilitate, support, and enco...
This article addresses the question of how social movement organ-izations are able to break out of b...
This paper examines a key shift within the U.S. labor movement in the 20th century, whereby the work...
ii In July 2005, six unions withdrew from the central labour federation in the United States, the AF...
Organizing has been at the heart of union strategy discussions for twenty years; it became labor’s t...
In summer 2005, the trade union movement formalised its split into two rival confederations. The spl...
THE dramatic ouster of the Teamsters, Bakery Workers, and other corrupt unions from the AFL-CIO, for...
[Excerpt] The stark reality of the continuing decline of U.S. unions has precipitated an intense feu...
Following the enactment of the NLRA in 1935, American Federation of Labor craft unions had difficult...
For many years, US trade unions declined in union density, organizing capacity, level of strike acti...
Australian union membership declined at over one per cent per annum through the 1990s, and unions no...
Union membership, as a percentage of the private sector workforce, has been in decline for 50 years....
In the 1990s the labor movement underwent a major transformation in an attempt to confront the chall...
The labor movement in the United States is in trouble. This fact is now widely accepted even by lead...
Analysis of the role of structural change in labor movement revitalization is presented as part of a...
In the last seven years the AFL-CIO has put forth an immense effort to facilitate, support, and enco...
This article addresses the question of how social movement organ-izations are able to break out of b...
This paper examines a key shift within the U.S. labor movement in the 20th century, whereby the work...