What are the ramifications of the split in organized labor?
There will be an increase in organizing efforts by both the AFL-CIO and the CTW. No longer are manufacturing settings the prime targets. When asked what the targets are for the CTW, Jimmy Hoffa Jr. of the International Brothers of Teamsters mentioned any jobs that cannot be shipped overseas. This clearly includes industries such as retail, health care, hospitality, distribution centers, customer-service centers, linen service, building maintenance, casinos, et cetera. What new union organizing techniques will we see? Non-union employers will see both the AFL-CIO and CTW using non-traditional approaches to organize employees, including card-checks and neutrality agreements. Traditionally, employees voted in government-controlled secret ballot elections to decide if they were going to unionize. Last year, unions won about 60 percent of the elections they conducted. Even with that encouraging percentage, unions view the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election process as slanted in
