What's good for the goose: a critical review of unions as employers and the continuing struggle toward equal benefits in the workplace

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This article discusses benefits provided by unions to their employees' domestic partners. The author examines institutional homophobia in labor movements and its relationship to the treatment of homosexual and unmarried employees, finding that unions looking for equal treatment are more willing to provide benefits so they can hold themselves as model employers.

Human resource management, Unmarried couples

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Bye-bye to pinkie rings: working women transform unions

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The author provides an account of working class women's involvement in the labor movement during the last 25 years. Topics include organizing of women in the health care, food service, and light manufacturing industry, organizers' work within the AFL-CIO's Working Women Department, and women's current role in the labor movement.

History, Membership, Labor relations, Working women, AFL-CIO, Working class women, Unionization, Women in the labor movement

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Toward a new labor rights movement

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This article suggests that worker's rights in the U.S. are sacrificed in order to earn a living, subjecting employees to the tyranny of the corporation. The authors provide alternatives to ineffective legislation as a method of extending constitutional rights to the workplace.

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