For the first time in memory — perhaps the first time ever — American unions are discussing their future. And that discussion is taking place, in large part, on the web.<\/p>\n
For the first time in memory — perhaps the first time ever — American unions are discussing their future. And that discussion is taking place, in large part, on the web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labour-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe 1.8 million member Service Employees International Union (SEIU) triggered the discussion with its proposal last year, entitled “Proposals for New Strength”. They set up a website to encourage discussion across all unions of the ways in which the embattled labour movement in the US could revitalize itself. The website can be found at http:\/\/www.unitetowin.org\/<\/a> and amazingly, it gives rank and file trade unionists a chance to publish their own views. For example, a recent article by SEIU President Andy Stern is followed by no fewer than 138 comments. And they are not all compliments.
\nThe launch of “Unite to Win” certainly influenced the AFL-CIO, the national trade union centre in the US, which created its own space on the net for this discussion, at http:\/\/www.aflcio.org\/aboutaflcio\/ourfuture\/index.cfm<\/a>
\nThe AFL-CIO has asked union members to give their views on 11 topic areas and 4 specific questions, such as “What steps do you think the national union movement must take to address today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"