Privatization backlash Crowd takes exception to plans for services at Gladstone schools

By Laura Mead, Daily Press (MI) January 19, 2010

GLADSTONE - Although the Gladstone School Board has made no decisions regarding the privatization of janitorial services within the district, concern continues to grow. A Teamsters steward came to Monday's meeting armed with letters that included the signatures of over 1,000 community members, petitioning against privatization.

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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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