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This 4-page paper discusses trends among labor unions in the United States and internationally. Topics under discussion include how globalization is harming union workers throughout the world. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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today are rapidly losing their power. This is especially true in todays globalized climate, in which corporations can ship jobs overseas to be manufactured at a less expensive cost that
could be done in the United States. As can be imagined, American labor unions are fighting this trend as much as they can.
But how is globalization impacting unions in other countries? If such jobs are being shipped overseas, would other union members in foreign nations benefit?
When Richard Trumka spoke at the 1996 Labor and Global Economy Conference, he made a great number of dire predictions, both for U.S. labor unions and their
international brethren. At that time, Trumka noted that working people from all nations are finding themselves in what he termed the "global hiring hall" (Trumka, 1996). "They are forced to
compete with men and women and children throughout the world who are forced by poverty or tyranny to work for longer hours at lower rates with fewer rights" (Trumka, 1996).
Such a "race to the bottom," he noted, end up impacting working people (in other words, union members) not only in the United States, but around the world as well
(Trumka, 1996). Back in 1996, Trumka made the announcement that the fight for unions would not just be an American worker fight,
but a global one as well (Trumka, 1996). He quoted many instances in which affiliated global unions - such as the steelworkers - "led a successful worldwide corporate campaign against
Bridgestone-Firestone and won because of substantial help from unions in Argentina, Brazil, Turkey, France, Japan, Spain . . ." (Trumka, 1996).
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