12/26/2003

In this week's American Prospect, Harold Meyerson considers the lessons of HERE's triumph in making the Las Vegas hotels union business. Las Vegas is in today's service economy what Detroit once was in an industrial economy: a demonstration that a strong labor movement is the route to a strong middle class. The approach Meyerson describes - directing resources towards organizing towards high density, creating broad-based organizing committees, training rank-and-file to shoulder responsibility, partnering with management for real vocational training - are at the heart of the New Unity Partnership HERE President John Wilhelm and others are pushing for the AFL-CIO.

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