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Front & Center | August 13, 2009
Time to Bargain on EFCA
By Will Marshall
Despite the backing of President Obama and congressional leaders, not to mention a multimillion-dollar union advertising blitz, Senate Democrats can’t quite muster the 60 votes they need to avoid a GOP filibuster of labor’s top priority: the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA).


New from PPI | May 7, 2009
Green Lights For Green Dot
By Mark Ribbing
The radical genius of Steve Barr, and the geography of urban school reform.


Blueprint Magazine | June 1, 2000
Back to the Future
By Interview by Kerry Tremain
Silicon Valley labor leader Amy Dean argues that mobile, Information Age workers need an updated version of the craft guild.


Blueprint Magazine | June 1, 2000
Reinventing Unions
By Stephen A. Herzenberg, John A. Alic, and Howard Wial
Labor unions have an important role in the New Economy. In the industrial era, unions negotiated work rules, while managers did the thinking. New union leaders are equipping workers with relevant skills and more flexible organizations.


Blueprint Magazine | June 1, 2000
Revolutionizing Work
By Paul Osterman
Under pressure from global competition, American firms have changed the way they operate - producing huge gains in productivity, quality, exports, and customer satisfaction.


Blueprint Magazine | June 1, 2000
What Works: Boosting Clothing Workers
By Bruce Herman and Linda Dworak
America's unions are taking the lead in launching a host of what are called High Road Partnerships that build alliances with employers and their communities. One of the most successful and oldest is the New York-based Garment Industry Development Corporation (GIDC).


Memo | October 28, 1990
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