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BusinessWeek July 25, 2005 Aaron Bernstein	Struggle For The Soul Of The AFL-CIO Two union honchos battle over reform, power, and turf on the eve of the AFL-CIO convention.
BusinessWeek March 7, 2005 Aaron Bernstein	Big Labor's Day of Reckoning As a critical confab nears, how far is the AFL-CIO willing to go to stem its decline?
BusinessWeek April 15, 2010 Holly Rosenkrantz	What Andy Stern Leaves Behind Andy Stern built the SEIU into a potent political force, but did he really recharge the labor movement?
BusinessWeek September 13, 2004	"We Need to Refocus the Labor Movement" Steelworkers President Leo Gerard on the need to work harder on membership growth and "to take back America from the corporations."
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Reason February 2001	Labor Lost Comments on labor unions.
BusinessWeek September 13, 2004	"We Have to Take A Different Look" Teachers union President Edward McElroy concurs that the AFL-CIO needs change, but he says Andy Stern's proposals are antidemocratic.
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HBS Working Knowledge October 3, 2005 Jim Heskett	What's the Future of Globally Organized Labor? Are we about to see the rise of labor organized on a global basis? If so, will such a movement be able to achieve the same purposes that have motivated large unions on a national basis? By what means will this be achieved?
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Reason June 2008 David Weigel	Union Rules The Democratic coalition rubs its hands at the prospect of taking over Washington.
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Inc. September 2004 Amy Gunderson	Labor Has a New Target And guess what? It's you! Unions are targeting small business. Few entrepreneurs are going to encourage their employees to unionize but, like it or not, more and more are going to be dealing with collective bargaining.
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Entrepreneur March 2003 Joshua Kurlantzick	United We Fall? Worker interest in unions may threaten your business. How will you respond? Smaller service and IT companies are vulnerable because they lack financial resources to wait out a strike or shift business overseas.
Salon.com August 8, 2000 Diane Seo & Suzy Hansen	Will Verizon workers strike out? Americans no longer look for the union label, making it hard for strikers to find a sympathetic ear.
IndustryWeek April 15, 2009	Laboring To Find Common Ground Launching a continuous-improvement initiative within a union shop involves a number of significant challenges, not the least of which is overcoming the adversarial nature of labor-management relationships.
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HBS Working Knowledge October 10, 2005	Readers Respond: What's the Future of Globally Organized Labor? Some readers believe unions are on their way out because of market pressures and ineffectiveness, while others think they provides a valuable service and can adapt to changing conditions.
Reason June 2009 Brink Lindsey	Nostalgianomics The rise in income inequality does raise issues of legitimate public concern. But the caricature of postwar history put forward by purveyors of nostalgianomics won't lead us anywhere.
Reason January 2001 Sara Rimensnyder	Soundbite: Labor Pains "Freedom of association is a right under severe, often buckling pressure when workers in the United States try to exercise it." That's the conclusion of Unfair Advantage, a new study commissioned by Human Rights Watch...
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Reason Aug/Sep 2000 James V. DeLong	Free Money Campaign finance "loopholes" are the best part of the system.
Managed Care May 2003 MargaretAnn Cross	Rising Costs Strike Unions As Being Cause for Unrest Many labor organizations have been isolated from inflationary realities. Can health plans and employers make them see the light?
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IDB America October 2003 Eduardo Lora	Do unions help? They can lubricate the gears of the labor market or make them grind to a halt -- it depends on government policy.
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Managed Care August 2001 Michael Levin-Epstein	How Much Damage Did Supreme Court Ruling Do to Health Care Unionization? Managed care and other health care organizations still are trying to figure out the probable effect of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that lays new ground rules for determining whether physicians and nurses who are employed at health care facilities are entitled to organize...
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