Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ruling took some spring out of labor's step in making the UPS strike a springboard for organizing efforts, even as the Teamsters were staging Action Day for Good Jobs rallies across the nation. "We will use the energy of the UPS defeat to renew the fight for good jobs," vowed AFL-CIO president John Sweeney...
...strike. But UPS may be a special case. The ubiquitous brown-uniformed drivers are almost part of the American family. People readily sympathized with the strikers, who charged that UPS was greedy in paying ever growing numbers of part-timers less than full-time employees. On the other hand, labor suffered a setback this month when a group of Wal-Mart stores workers in Wisconsin rejected the United Steelworkers of America...
...unions see plenty of opportunities to reach disaffected working stiffs. For almost 20 years, wages have stagnated, held down by unending rounds of layoffs and job migration, as the global economy continued to exert its pull. Even in a booming U.S. economy with record low unemployment, labor has only recently been able to reverse this trend slightly...
...upped its funding for membership drives from 4% to 30% of its budget. The Teamsters are taking on nonunion Federal Express and Overnite Transportation, the largest group of unorganized truckers in the nation. Labor watchers say that for the unions to thrive, they need to shift their recruitment focus to the new information economy and away from the old manual one. But the union's targets still stress the less skilled end of the workers' spectrum--apple pickers in Washington state, hotel workers in Las Vegas. Whether these workers can provide a replacement for the iron and steel backbone...
WASHINGTON: On the day no one is supposed to work, America got a raise. The final 40 cents of the latest minimum-wage increase kicked in on Labor Day, with Labor Secretary Alexis Herman bragging that the rising pay scale is not drowning the nation in unemployment as big business had warned it would...