Union Organization

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This paper discusses the recent history of trade unions and how they have changed over the years. It looks at public perceptions of unions and union leadership and how the union's actions influence the way they are perceived in public. It then discusses membership motivation and the membership drive tactics that the unions may use to boost their numbers.

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"Birthed in a time in which business demands on laborers were high and often bordering on inhumane, the organized labor movement was a needed guarantor of employee rights and fair labor practices. Beginning concurrently with the industrial revolution, labor unions demanded that businesses include the needs and well-being of their most valuable asset, its' workforce, in planning for a profitable future. However, during the past 3 decades, businesses have adjusted their paradigm to include the value of its educated and trained workforce. The global workplace has forced business to take a proactive position toward creating and maintaining a positive work environment. Business can no longer treat its workforce like a disposable piece of machinery which can be replaced on a whim. The modern worker carries skills, talent, and learned organizational assets which can not be replaced by a visit to the local employment agency. As a result, organized labor, its ranks and political power are at low ebb. The central power brokers of money and influence on the 50's, 60's and 70's is rattling its sabers and marshaling its forces for a new crusade to regain the clout it once had in the nation's factories and ballot boxes."

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