In the sewing area, workers are organized into small teams.
It was the fact that workers were organized in the auto and other manufacturing industries that sparked the creation of a large middle class in America.
Workers are organized into three main groups: the Swedish Trade Union Confederation, the Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees, and the Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations.
Instead, workers are organized in small Japanese-style teams and encouraged to make sure problems are fixed on the spot rather than passed down the line.
Such workers are organized in cooperatives and collect mainly plastic, cans and paper from the streets, to be sold to companies that handle recycling.
"In the early 1970s, when one in three male workers were organized, unions were often prominent voices for equity, not just for their members, but for all workers," the two professors wrote.
For a great many Bolivians, the labor unions retain an association with a time when workers were organized and proud, and when Bolivia's railroads and airlines and mines belonged to Bolivians.
It is not at all clear, labor experts say, that the strong wage gains in steel, autos, rubber and airlines will be imitated by unionized employees in the public sector or by unionized employees in industries like health care, where only a small percentage of the workers are organized.
About 10% of private-sector workers are organized, versus 40% of public-sector workers.
While fewer than 8% of private workers are organized, nearly 40% of public employees belong to unions.
