A Proposal to American Labor
'Open source unionism' could reinvigorate American labor in the age of the Internet

http://www.thenation.com/article/proposal-american-labor
Date Written:  2006-06-20
Publisher:  The Nation
Year Published:  2002
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX14181

The authors posit that union membership is too restricted by the requirement that unions have majority support in the workplace. They believe that pro-union workers who are a minority in their workplace should be mobilized by the labor movement if it wants to grow.

Subject Headings

• Collective Bargaining
• Collective Bargaining/Federal Jurisdiction
• International Unions
• Labour Force
• Labour Law
• Labour Movement
• Labour Organizing
• Labour Unions
• Minority Rights
• Minority Rule
• Organizing
• Union Organizing
• Unions
• Workers' Control
• Workers' Co-operatives
• Workers' Culture