Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this final victory for the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), labor experts say, is a hopeful sign for America's flagging organized labor movement...
Throughout the past five years that HUCTW has been organizing on the entire campus, labor experts have been watching the campaign, predicting that even if the Harvard union was not certified, the campaign itself would introduce a new kind of organizing into the national labor movement...
...most important union trend is the feminization of union membership," said Northeastern labor scholar Karl Klare. "Women make up nearly half the labor market and jobs opening up are expected to be predominantly filled by women. This campaign encourages hopeful signs of what's going on for women in labor...
Pundits like the New Republic's Morton Kondracke, a once-liberal Democrat, speculate that Jackson will win the 1992 nomination, lose miserably, and transform the Democratic Party into an American version of the British Labor Party--a strong liberal voice permanently locked out of the nation's highest office...
Once the Democratic party learns to articulate a progressive voice, they must reconstitute the New Deal coalition and expand it. Liberal policies are still more beneficial to women, minorities and labor--but they are only a base on which to build a wider constituency...