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To: lorne who wrote (57025)	8/7/2000 7:48:29 AM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 117013

Major US Labor Change which will(imho) lead to wage INFLATION! THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE COMES from the National Labor Relations Board, which is widely expected later this month to ease long-held restrictions on unionizing temporary workers, a huge victory for the labor movement. On any given day, nearly three million Americans work as temps, so unionizing even a small fraction would be a coup. The NLRB decision would boost several unions’ efforts to add temporary workers to their ranks, helping to counter a decadeslong erosion of membership and prestige. The 13 million-member AFL-CIO, for example, is in the early stage of a drive to unionize temporary construction workers across the country. Even without the NLRB’s aid, the unions have won scattered victories, including a successful drive last year to organize 74,000 temporary health-care workers in California. “Organizing temporary workers is a big part of the American labor movement’s strategy for organizing new workers,” says Gerald McEntee, president of the 1.3 million-member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. “It’s an increasingly crucial goal.”(cont) msnbc.com