Is Organized Labor A Decaying Business Model?: Is Organized Labor A Decaying Business Model?: QUESTION: "Is Organized Labor A Decaying Business Model?"

Is Organized Labor A Decaying Business Model?: Is Organized Labor A Decaying Business Model?: QUESTION: "Is Organized Labor A Decaying Business Model?"

"Is Organized Labor a Decaying Business Model?”

I have just published a book "Is Organized Labor a Decaying Business Model?” which is based on a PhD dissertation in Business Administration-Labor Relations. The book is based on six years of labor union research and extensive direct union experience in various capacities.

I understand how unions operate and the modus operandi of labor unions, having been on the inside as a union organizer and union shop steward. I also understand and respect the needs of both sides of the labor-management equation.

Given the current global and domestic economic, business, and social climate, including, technology, the internet, downsizing, outsourcing and corporate consolidations, organized labor needs to become less "us" (labor) versus "them" (management) mindset.

Organized labor must become a value added component to business. A failed or closed business does not need employees, and therefore organized labors reason for being is under attack.

Simply put: No Employer - No Employees - No Union.

One needs look no further than the current situation with the auto and related industries, to see a business model and industry in trouble. It is bad not only for the workers, and the economy, but also bad for the union, whose job it is (or was) to represent and protect the employees who are the unions membership.

Union memberships pay dues, and are the "customers" of the labor union, and the economic engine, that enables the union to have political and economic strength. If the union looses dues paying membership, and therefore its "customer base" it is facing the same economic issues that the employer faces. In this case, the Organized Labor Business Model is under attack, and can become a decaying business model.

If organized labor (labor unions) do not change, and do not recognize that the nature of work has evolved, and if unions continue to operate as they have historically, then they will become less relevant to workers and employers. Organized labor will become the one century wonder.

Please refer to the website: www.outskirtspress.com/chrismosquera for more information.
The book is available through Amazon.com, and Barnes and Noble.com, or directly through the publisher.

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