Unions Look to New Groups for Survival

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Unions Look to New Groups for Survival
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Mar 25, 12:47 PM (ET)

By JOHN SEEWER

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Trying to stop the erosion of organized labor, union leaders are looking beyond their core auto and steel industries to recruit service workers making low wages and professionals worrying about losing their health care.

The new faces of unions are immigrants working at construction sites, hospital nurses, parking lot attendants, mechanics and casino dealers - all groups who are unlikely to lose their jobs to overseas workers.

"What's left anymore?" said Al Mixon, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 507 in Cleveland, which just finalized a contract with American Red Cross employees in northern Ohio. "We're all forced to look into new areas."

This may be just the beginning of the reshaping of unions at a time when factory jobs are being sent overseas or lost to technological changes.

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1. The loss of jobs overseas needsa to be curtailed

and that will only come about by building stronger unions which in turn will increase political power.
Unions have been decimated by unfair trade practices and the flood of illegal alien labor.