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Preparing for the Worst: Organizing and Staying Organized in the Public Sector

Author
Juravich, Tom; Bronfenbrenner, Kate
Abstract
[Excerpt] The free fall of union membership in the 1970s and 1980s in the U.S. private sector was checked by unionization in the public sector. In many ways the growth of public-sector employment both masked the dramatic decline of private-sector unionization and prevented the wholesale hemorrhaging of the labor movement. Although government workers comprise only 16 percent of the current workforce, workers covered by collective bargaining in the public sector currently make up approximately one-third of the membership of the AFL-CIO.
Date Issued
1998-01-01Subject
unions; organizing; United States; USA; strategy
Rights
Required Publisher Statement: Copyright by Cornell University.
Type
article