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CUPE_Reformer
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posted 17 August 2006 05:06 AM      Profile for CUPE_Reformer   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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CAW 265,000 members.

Almost 150,000 members have joined the union through more than 35 mergers.

For every 8 new jobs added in the private sector only about 1 is getting organized.

Unionization in the private sector has fallen from almost 30% in 1981 to 17.5% today.

When the NDP defeated the Filmon government in Manitoba it retracted the requirement for compulsory votes but in its place imposed an unusually and blatantly unfair threshold-65%-of card sign-ups.


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wobbly
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posted 17 August 2006 10:34 AM      Profile for wobbly     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Thanks! I'll definitely be reading that pdf.
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