A1 Gore's Union Card in Iowa The heavily unionized work force in the farm-equipment factories and meat-packing plants of Iowa is a major factor behind the Gore camp's confidence that the vice president will win the Jan . 24caucuses.
The company has already extended buyout offers to its entire United States unionized work force to reduce their ranks by another 20,000 jobs.
The guild's critics say the divisiveness undermines the American acting profession at a time when the forces threatening unionized work forces everywhere -- globalization, mergers and cheap foreign labor -- are roiling the entertainment industry, too.
In addition, the combination of a well-paid, unionized work force and a large number of retired steelworkers to support means the labor costs for American steel makers are among the highest in the world.
Mr. Walker said that in restricting collective bargaining rights for government workers, save those in public safety, he was confronting a reality facing virtually all state governments with aging, unionized work forces: "We can't sustain our budgets unless we make some reasonable changes".
But the companies that transport 70,000 special education and preschool pupils say that it would drive up costs by forcing them to hire a new, more expensive unionized work force that earns more than many of the companies' present drivers and matrons, and thus create a divisive labor environment.
Tourism jobs, however, are a poor substitutes for high-paying (unionized) work at the mine.
Five more nursing homes said they would allow union workers who had walked out on May 1 to return to work, raising the total number of homes bringing back their unionized work force to 15, union officials said yesterday.
Airlines are one of the most heavily unionized industries in the country, and Mr. Johnson has had severe run-ins with his unionized work force at BET.
Mr. Trumka said union members would also distribute two million leaflets at unionized work sites between now and Election Day, noting that that would be on top of 12 million fliers mailed to union members' homes.
Under the decision, labor unions might simply petition the labor board to rule that several dozen temporary employees at a unionized work site should be added to the union bargaining unit, even without a vote by the temporary workers.
