The L.A. Times: Labor’s movement
Labor’s movement
By Julius Getman and Thomas Kohler, JULIUS G. GETMAN teaches labor law at the University of Texas School of Law. THOMAS C. KOHLER teaches labor and employment law at Boston College Law School.
THE REMARKABLE recent success of the Service Employees International Union in organizing more than 5,000 janitors in Houston constituted the largest victorious union organizing drive in the South in recent memory. For those of us who still believe in the importance of the union movement, it was a welcome sign of organized labor’s much-needed revitalization after years of falling membership and declining influence.
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