Reply #12: actually, you may

[William Z. Foster]

Excellent article:

Immigrants
Why Labor Needs to Organize and Defend the Rights of Immigrant Workers
by David Bacon

"Today unions represent about 13% of the U.S. workforce. We have to organize 400,000 workers a year just to stay in the same place. If we want to grow from 13% to 14% -- just 1% -- we have to organize 800,000 workers a year. The executive council just agreed to set a new goal for organizing -- one million workers a year."

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"We're in a fight to survive, and to survive we must grow. And to grow, we have to ask an important question - which groups of workers want to join unions? What's the track record? If labor intends to organize a million workers a year, who are these workers going to be? Clearly, one group of workers who have been fighting to organize unions are immigrants. In California, a majority of union drives over the last decade have been at least partly based among immigrants. This includes not just campaigns initiated by unions, but many spontaneous strikes and organizing drives initiated by immigrant workers themselves."

http://dbacon.igc.org/Imgrants/26WhyLaborNeedsToDefend.htm