Upshaw is still trying to fight the image of union lightweight, despite the fact that he has raised the average player salary to over $1.2 million from $230,000 since taking his post.
When he was a state senator, his Confederate memorabilia store sold items that included Maurice Bessinger's barbeque sauce, which lots of shoppers and stores were boycotting because of Bessinger's biblically justified pro-slavery tracts, and toilet paper with the image of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
Instead of worrying about the image of unions, people should simply come and join us.
American union leaders also recognize that allying with Mexico on the issue will help unions attract immigrants to their ranks by improving the image of unions in the eyes of immigrants.
The real issue here is that people's image of unions, and their sense that doing something like going on strike is legitimate, seems to depend quite a bit, in the U.S., on how common unions are in the workforce.
In a landmark 1984 study, the economists Richard Freeman and James Medoff showed that there was a strong connection between the public image of unions and how workers voted in union elections: the less popular unions were generally, the harder it was for them to organize.
The industrial state labor battles that culminated in last night's overwhelming Ohio success transformed the image of unions from a large bureaucratic "special interest" that negotiates for workers and are part of the "establishment" -- into a movement to protect the interests of the American Middle Class.
In the most recent Eurobarometer, just 43% of EU citizens said they had a positive image of the Union, against 21% with a negative image.
The two developments come at a time when Mr. Hoffa has vowed to improve the image of a union that was long known for corruption.
We have had two very high-profile disciplinary cases in England involving two of our most successful clubs, Bath and Harlequins, and clearly those issues have harmed the image of rugby union in England and elsewhere," Baron said.
My image of a union organizer, based on extensive personal experience, is a big, loud guy with a bullhorn, not a slender, soft-spoken former women's studies major whose reflexive response to a crowd is to melt into the sidelines.
