It is very likely you will experience setbacks in community organizing.
By crisis, he means myriad setbacks, including a steady loss of union membership, frequent defeats in organizing drives and unions being forced to accept multiyear wage freezes.
The legislation, which Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican, signed almost immediately, is the latest in series of setbacks to organized labor in states where it has traditionally been strong, like Indiana and Wisconsin.
WASHINGTON -- In a setback for organized labor that could have been much worse, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that certain government-funded employees cannot be required to pay fees to the public sector unions that represent them, a decision that could hurt some unions financially.
Labor unions led the failed effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, and their defeat in Tuesday's election was a significant setback to organized labor's political clout in both symbolic and tangible ways.
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Republicans in the West Virginia legislature overrode the governor's veto of a contentious right-to-work bill on Friday, delivering another major legislative setback to organized labor.
Fletcher's win is also a major setback for organized labor, which bitterly opposed her bid.
In its 5-4 ruling in Harris v. Quinn, the court gave certain workers the ability to opt out of paying dues to public-sector unions, delivering a setback to the organized labor movement.
Unless the conservative forces organize themselves better in 2012, he warned, they could well be facing setbacks in more important elections.
He later suffered setbacks in training.
