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Some see imagination; others see ego. Either way, Andrew Stern's vision for a more aggressive labor movement persuaded his union, the Teamsters and the United Food and Commercial Workers, together representing 4.6 million workers, to split from the AFL-CIO. TIME's Joseph R. Szczesny asks the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) chief to explain the bitter divorce...
...where retirees lost their health care. But the final decision was made on the weekend before the convention, just sitting in a room with the other union presidents. You always have a hope that something's going to get resolved at the last minute. It's the nature of labor negotiations. But we then realized this was more of a situation where things were not going to shift toward a settlement but where you had to decide if you were going to strike...
...WHAT CAN LABOR DO TO INFLUENCE THE DEVELOPMENT OF JOBS AS COMPANIES MOVE MORE OF THEM ABROAD, TO PLACES LIKE CHINA...
...going to organize employers one store at a time. We have to organize across industries and companies. Look at the airline industry, one of most heavily unionized industries in the country. What you have to do is make wages be like fuel, so that no one competes on labor costs but on service, efficiency and innovation. You could have pooled pensions and health care and even a basic entry-level wage rate for everyone...
ORGANIZED LABOR HAS ALWAYS DEPENDED ON POLITICAL ACTION. WON'T LABOR'S VOICE SHRINK ON CAPITOL HILL AND IN STATE CAPITOLS IF IT'S DIVIDED...