Trends in Union Corporate Campaigns - US Chamber of Commerce

and others assigned to their attacks on companies. This was
a function of a weakness they have long shared with big
business—the lack of popular sympathy for their actions.
Over the years, however, these alliances have become more
extensive, more formal and in many ways more meaningful,
to the point that today non-labor advocacy groups carry much
of the weight in labor-based corporate campaigns. Figure 3,
for instance, summarizes a few of the organizations that have
shared direct connections with UNITE HERE, the textile and
hotel/restaurant workers union. The lines in the figure represent
funding trails, shared programs, leadership links and the like
that have been in place at one or another point, or continuously,
in recent years.
Figure 3. Selected Organizations with Primary Connections to
UNITE HERE
For a key to the acronyms in Figure 3, see Figure 4.
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