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A 7 page paper that explores the increase in union membership in 1997 because of advantages (general and specific) provided by unions to its members. The needs of today's employees in a reorganizing and downsizing corporate environment are attributed to a new growth in union membership. For this reason, unions have realized a reverse of the decline in union membership experienced over the past 15 years. Today, unions are helping workers in industries as varied as aircraft workers to physicians. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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reports are changing. Workers unions are gaining strength. Unions have always offered important protections and other wage advantages for union members. Some of the advantages offered by
union shops today are increased wages for employees under free trade/capitalist regimes, provision of long-term security in the form of job protection, and negotiating the terms of downsizing "packages" to
include compensation in the form of cash and retraining. Unions also provide a forum for addressing issues concerning inequality of pay. Recent actions by federal employees to improve
their situations has led local and federal governments to understand that downsizing for the purpose of widening the gap between the classes, will not be tolerated. Although membership is
growing, so is membership in private industries. Groups to realize benefits from union activity in recent years range from aircraft workers to public employees, womens groups and medical care
workers. The success of unions in these areas us evidenced in union activities since the mid-1990s at GM, Boeing, the IRS, the Post
Office, and medical facilities in Nevada and Arizona (Gapasin and Yates 46(17); Moody 63(17); "Postal Reform in Canada"; Thompson). Although the 1980s and early 1990s saw a downfall in
union effectiveness and membership, interest in union membership is changing rapidly. The change is attributed not only to a change in leadership at the national level of the AFL-CIO,
but a gain in strength in local councils, affiliates of the federal organizations called Central Labor Councils (CLCs) (Gapasin and Yates 46(17)).
The reason that the management of union activities has shifted to CLCs is that the AFL-CIO and other national federations did not realize success in the 1980s and early
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