Paper discusses unions, and global union trends. It gives views on the future of unions while looking at the history of unionization.

Union officials claim, as many as 44 million workers in America would join a union if they had a chance, but employers routinely block attempts to form unions. Increasingly, elected leaders, community groups and religious leaders are demanding that companies stop breaking the law and hindering workers' efforts to form unions. In 1935, Congress passed the National Labor Relations Act, giving workers the right to form unions and negotiate contracts with their employers. Under the law, workers …

…reasonable vacation and sick time are acceptable demands. If the unions are going to demand and strike for wages and benefits higher than the marketplace allows, they are not only hurting the company, they are hurting their members, and their cause, as they watch the jobs go away. References Baird C. ( 2000) The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., September 2000, Vol. 50, No. 9. AFL-CIO, (2003), retrieved online April 13,2003 at http://www.aflcio.org/aboutunions/joinunions/whyjoin/uniondifference/uniondiff11.cfm