Think tank’s campaign again puts it on collision course with teachers union
By Paul Takaharshi, Las Vegas Sun
The Nevada Policy Research Institute is launching another campaign to encourage teachers to drop their union memberships.
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The Spread of Worker Centers
By Joe Kefauver, csnews.com
After years of declining membership and influence, particularly at the local level, the labor movement is being revitalized through alliances with a growing activist network and a new organizing entity known as the worker center.
A union of one
By James Sherk, The Washington Times
Desperate times call for desperate measures, but the union movement has taken this saying to a new level. It has reacted to dwindling membership by unionizing recipients of public assistance. In more than a dozen states, unions now extract dues from government benefit checks.
Labor unions see the future in white-collar workers
By Bruce Kennedy, MSN Money
As an overall trend, union membership rates in the U.S. are declining. The Department of Labor reports just 11.3% of America’s wage and salary workers were union members last year, down from 11.8% in 2011. Compare that with 1983, the first year comparable data became available: The overall U.S. union membership rate was 20.1%.
Obamacare vs. unions
By Kathy Hoekstra, The Detroit News
Michigan union members who have dug in their heels fighting the state’s right to work law. But an Obamacare analysis by Americans for Tax Reform may have some of them sitting back on those heels a bit.
With membership declining, labor unions look to revitalize
Cleveland Plain Dealer Organized labor is no longer in denial about its dwindling numbers and
VW Doesn’t Need The Labor Unions
chattanoogan.com There was a time in this world when unions (then known as guilds) were
