The Telecommunications Workers of America

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This paper traces the origins and evolution of the union known as Telecommunications Workers of America (TWA). In doing so, the paper provides a history of U.S. unions, in general, with an emphasis on the history of TWA. After the history of TWA, the paper goes on to discuss the union's membership and organizational structure, its management philosophy, and its method of representation within the organization.

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"We tend to think of labor unions as a thing of the past. Not, of course, that workers no longer need protection. But since the beginning of the first Reagan administration, we have become used to workers' rights being chipped " and sometimes hacked " away by the powerful interests of capital. (The same powerful interests, of course, that unions were designed to fight against). The overall percentage of workers who belong to unions has been falling for generations, in part because of Reagan-era legal decisions that lessened the power of unions and in part because of globalization and a shift away (in the United States and in other First World countries) from the heavy-industrial jobs that have tended to be the most heavily unionized, as Boeri (2001) notes."

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