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Article: The campaign has started.(Opinion)(unionization of waste industry)(Brief Article)
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- Waste News
- Article date:
- March 29, 2004
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One view of the recent history of the labor movement in America is that it has succeeded to the point that unions are no longer needed as badly as they once were. Employers have learned that if you don't treat workers well, they can take matters into their own hands, and in so doing, shift a company's - sometimes an entire industry's - balance of power.
Thus nonunion employers have come to realize they must work hard to keep their workers happy, if for no other reason than simple self-interest.
Now the Teamsters union, whose ranks are being squeezed by the outflow of manufacturing jobs to other countries, has set its sights on the waste industry. Waste ...