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  • New national union aims to unite nurses

    Delegates from three major unions of registered nurses, meeting in Phoenix on December 7, merged their forces into a new national organization, the National Nurses United. The three founding affiliates --- the California Nurses Association, the Massachusetts Nurses Association, and the United American Nurses --- report a combined membership of 150,000. To thunderous applause from some 150 delegates, one of the three elected co-presidents proclaimed that this creation of the "largest union of direct care nurses is about a century overdue."

  • On the eve of the SEIU convention.

    For over a year, the line pursued by Andy Stern, SEIU president and supported with near unanimity by the union's top leadership, has come under attack by Sal Rosselli, president of the 140,000-member United Healthcare Workers-West (UHW-W). The dispute, openly or by implication, will dominate the union's quadrennial convention which begins in Puerto Rico on June 1.

Book Review

  • Book review: U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition by Kim Moody

    In U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition, Kim Moody argues that the decline of union strength is as much due to failures of union leadership as it is to the usual suspects: globalization, deindustrialization, and technological change. A founder of Labor Notes and a longtime activist in and around the labor movement, Moody takes pains to assess the consequences of the big economic trends on labor's strength, but he saves his most biting criticism for labor's top leadership and its history of business unionism.

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