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Union Strategies for Hard Times
by Bill Barry
What can unions do as the Great Recession ravages workers and their unions and threatens to destroy decades of collective bargaining gains? What must local union leaders do to help their laid-off members, protect those still working, and prevent the gutting of their hard-fought contracts – and their very unions themselves? How, in fact, can local union leaders seize the time and turn crisis into opportunity?
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