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The New Labor Movement and the Transient Advantage Economy
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 June 18, 2015 | U. S. LABOR | fortune.com It’s taken some time, but union leaders seem to have finally learned a few things. If a policy is bad for one group of middle-income people (think steelworkers) it is eventually bad for another group (think firefighters). As a recent article in the New York Times makes clear, public-sector union members, who once thought they were relatively immune from the problems afflicting their private-sector brethren, have finally connected the dots. When jobs are lost to globalization, the hollowed-out communities left behind still need services but don’t have the money to pay for them… In short, traditional “Big Labor” has figured out in this case how to exert the kind of influence that many thought was gone for good. Full story…
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