Harry+van+Arsdale+and+the+Labor+Movement

//• "corporations, along with their CEOs, are seizing a bigger piece of the nation’s economic pie // // for themselves, leaving the nation’s workers and // //their families diminished"// Steven Greenhouse, **The Big Squeeze** == • In 2009, the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of a union was12.3 percent (see below for reference)

//• “Pension plans are kind of a thing of the past.”// Hewlett-Packard Company spokesman

**What will happen to the American worker if unions disappear?** **Who are the [|excluded workers]?** [|**List of excluded workers from the United Workers' Congress**] **Should union members start thinking of international partnerships?** **Should unions start rethinking how they will survive in a country that distrusts them?** **What can workers do in the face of declining unions?**

**Read this article from the Atlantic Monthly for a background of the current crisis for workers in America today** =[|Why Workers Won’t Unite/ The Atlantic Monthly - April 15, 2015]= Globalization and technology have gutted the labor movement, and part-time work is sabotaging solidarity. Is there a new way to challenge the politics of inequality?

=Harry van Arsdale= //“Without a union, a worker has no chance.”// What did van Arsdale mean by that statement? is it still true? Who was he? What did he do? Why is he still so respected by union members?

What were some of the union organizing campaigns he worked on? [[image:cteawiki/HVArsdale width="159" height="221" align="left"]]
(electrical workers, taxi drivers, subway workers, etc)

Define some of the issues that van Arsdale worked on during his career.
Job security Retirement plan Health insurance Protection against arbitrary firings and lay-offs, exploitation, outsourcing education opportunities Minimum wage

Try looking up the following phrases in google and see what you find.
"union avoidance industry" "Living Wage Mandate" "Right to Work" state "excluded workers"

___ =Below you will find a number of links that should answer all the questions posed above.=

Links for Harry van Arsdale
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Jobs Crisis takes it toll on union membership []

by Steven Greenhouse, writer and former NY Times Labor reporter ___
 * excerpt from** [|**The Big Squeeze**]

Why is there such a strong push to destroy unions in the U.S.
Union Avoidance or Union busting??? What do you call it?

BNET – articles on union avoidance - how to avoid unions organizing in your company. []

An angry company owner who wrote a book called **The Devil At My Doorstep** about his fight with SEIU, a union trying to organize his workers []

Union Facts from an employers's point of view []

the Ugly Face of Union Busting AFL-CIO Blog []

Bust the Union Busters [] __

In 2009, the union membership rate--the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of a union--was 12.3 percent from Bureau of Labor Statistics []

What is Wage theft? [] Can My Boss Do That? [] []

Living Wage Calculator []

Should there be a living wage? []

Wall Street's Dirty Rotten Scoundrels []


 * the Labor Movement - "the folks who brought you the weekend"**