Article: Labor can't keep pace: Union gains lag growth in work force.(Business)

Article: DECISION STIRS LABOR MOVEMENT SOME FEAR HIGH ...
The Boston Globe;  April 14, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... in a decision that has the labor movement up in arms, a sharply divided ... Americans, once shunned by the labor movement, now make up 17.5 percent ... than half of the unionized work force - the labor movement won 50 percent or more of ...

Article: The meat of the matter: the labor movement's future ...
Business North Carolina;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... representation of the U.S. work force dwindling--from 23% in 1983 to 13% in 2007--the labor movement needs a big win. There would ... Alabama, etcetera." "If the labor movement can't win the South, we ... be transformative to the labor movement, for immigrants, for ...

Article: LABOR DAY A TIME TO FOCUS ON WORK-FORCE LITERACY; ...
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  September 5, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... accomplishments of the U.S. work force. Labor Day is an outgrowth of the American labor movement in the mid-18th century ... entering the industry's work force today lack even the ... percent of the U.S. work force and more than 50 percent ...

Article: Activist Peter Benzoni dies at 87; He helped drive labor ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  March 18, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... to a career in the labor movement, organizing membership ... the decline of the labor movement will be published this ... naught because the labor movement has dwindled so much ... about 12 percent of the work force," his son said ...

Transcript: Analysis: American labor movement
Talk of the Nation (NPR);  May 31, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Analysis: American labor movement Host: JUAN WILLIAMS ... the American labor movement. At the start ... private sector work force. In the middle ... the American work force was unionized ... changing face of the labor movement. How will organized ...

Article: Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement.
Industrial and Labor Relations Review;  July 1, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... working people and the organized labor movement - has been a persistent theme ... serial migrations that remade the work force again and again, and the experience ... and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement. Although his focus is the law ...

Article: Interview with Mike Ryan: Soon to retire career with Wis. ...
Daily Reporter (Milwaukee);  March 5, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... part of Wisconsin's labor movement. How many years of ... you devoted to the labor movement? I've been a member ... What do you see as the labor movement's challenges right ... skilled, productive work force out there. What ...