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Organizing to Win: Introduction

Author
Bronfenbrenner, Kate; Friedman, Sheldon; Hurd, Richard W.; Oswald, Rudolph A.; Seeber, Ronald L.
Abstract
[Excerpt] The American labor movement is at a watershed. For the first time since the early years of industrial unionism sixty years ago, there is near-universal agreement among union leaders that the future of the movement depends on massive new organizing. In October 1995, John Sweeney, Richard Trumka, and Linda Chavez-Thompson were swept into the top offices of the AFL-CIO, following a campaign that promised organizing "at an unprecedented pace and scale." Since taking office, the new AFL-CIO leadership team has created a separate organizing department and has committed $20 million to support coordinated large-scale industry-based organizing drives. In addition, in the summer of 1996, the AFL-CIO launched the "Union Summer" program, which placed more than a thousand college students and young workers in organizing campaigns across the country.
Date Issued
1998-01-01Subject
unions; organizing; United States; USA; strategy
Rights
Required Publisher Statement: Copyright by Cornell University.
Type
article