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Written by Lakshmi Chaudhry
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For quite some time now, the labor union movement in America has been on a steady decline, in terms of its membership. Where once about a third of Americas workers belonged to a union, today the number is hovering around 10 percent. But the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) which has janitors, home healthcare aides, nurses, immigrant workers has broken the mold and become the fastest-gowing union in the nation, with 1.8 million members.
Much of that growth has been attributed to its president, Andy Stern, the 54-year-old dynamo who has begun to reshape not just the image of the union boss, but the reality.
Continue story @ http://alternet.org/story/21213/
Source: Alternet.org
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