Gary Chaison
Gary Chaison
Gary N. Chaisonis an industrial relations scholar and labor historian at Clark University...
ask carefully demands employers major plan realize
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.
almost care health
What they've done is really almost jump-start reconsideration of health care benefits,
auto father jobs looked passed people plants
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.
bigger question
The question is: Are bigger unions, better unions?
challenge collective reason saw
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.
asking workers
Workers have got to be asking themselves, what do we have to do?
business costs cutting sell
Cutting costs is not a business plan. You can cut costs but it doesn't sell cars.
almost job property
They almost see their job as a property right.
money order
They're also doing it in order to show if you go on strike, this is money you're going to be losing.
labor small
This is a small union, and it doesn't have any allies, because it's kind of a pariah in the labor movement,
This is not going anywhere, ... This is not going to be settled.
bad fight gets union
This is probably as bad as it gets for a union leader. He's in a fight with no allies.
good lose ruin
They don't want to ruin a good thing, but at the same time, they don't want to lose a good thing.
civil heir increase itself labor movement organizing rights seen tremendous
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.