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Social insurance and employee benefits are key elements of
society's safety net for workers. Social Security, although popular
and successful, is under attack by critics who advocate
privatization and benefit cuts. In health care, the United States
has charted a course unique in the industrial world: 110 years
after the debut of national health insurance in Europe, the US
still lacks comprehensive coverage, spends a higher proportion of
its gross domestic product on medical care than any other nation,
and fails to insure 44 million people. The U.S. safety net relies
heavily on job-related coverage, which has imposed a major burden
on collective bargaining. With competitive pressures causing many
employers to cut benefits and shift costs and risks to workers,
private employee benefits have been weakened just when the public
safety net is being challenged. What, then, does the future hold
for social insurance and employee benefits? In The Future of the
Safety Net, leading experts address key aspects of this crucial
question.
At a time when the American labor movement is mobilizing for a
major resurgence through new organizing, here, at last, is a book
about research on union organizing strategies. Previous studies
have focused on factors contributing to union decline, devoting
little attention to the organizing process itself. The twenty
chapters in this volume dramatically increase understanding of the
range and effectiveness of new organizing strategies and their
potential contribution to the revitalization of the labor movement.
The introduction defines the context of the current organizing
climate. Major sections of the book cover strategic initiatives in
union organizing, overcoming barriers to worker support for unions,
community-based organizing, building membership and public support
for organizing, and organizing initiatives by industry or by
sector. Individual chapters focus on topics such as organizing
outside the NLRB process, the role of clergy, local labor councils,
and rank-and-file volunteer organizers.
The product of an October 1993 conference on labor law reform
jointly sponsored by the School of Industrial and Labor Relations
at Cornell U. and the Department of Economic Research at the
AFL-CIO, this volume both argues the need for fundamental reform of
the legal and institutional underpinnings o
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