Gary Chaison
Gary Chaison
Gary N. Chaisonis an industrial relations scholar and labor historian at Clark University...
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I think that (AFL-CIO President John) Sweeney will have to make a strong statement about the AFL-CIO and how it's strong and still relevant.
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People looked at jobs in the auto plants like property, like something that they owned, something that could be passed down from father to sons. That was pretty much making it for a lot of people.
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I thought a month ago that the industry had reached a plateau, and we would finally see what the direction would be, ... Instead, it's just gone from bad to worse.
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I think it may have emboldened some employers to reassess their situation, making them realize if they plan carefully they can withstand a strike, ... And that means, yes, you can ask for major demands from unions.
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What they've done is really almost jump-start reconsideration of health care benefits,
asking workers
Workers have got to be asking themselves, what do we have to do?
bigger question
The question is: Are bigger unions, better unions?
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Traditionalists didn't see any reason for it and saw it as a challenge to real collective bargaining. Over the years there has been a rethinking of this idea.
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General Motors is more than just a symbol of American industry. It envelops the towns where it operates, and people become dependent on it in those towns.
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In collective bargaining, it's important for both parties to get used to losing because they have to make initial demands or offers and then they have to be willing to accept less.
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Their feeling is, 'This is my only chance to get a job in this industry again, and I'm taking the job of a worker who miscalculated and walked off the job,'
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In organizing itself I see a tremendous increase in the reinventing of the labor movement as the heir of the civil rights movement. I think it's the recasting of the labor movement in a way that I haven't seen in many years.
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Cutting costs is not a business plan. You can cut costs but it doesn't sell cars.
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It may give the governor a sense he has to prove something establish his reputation to not back down. I am afraid the parties are really digging in. This has become a first-class dispute, a bitter dispute.