This trend hasn't only been driven by the service sector, but also by the mounting computer dependence of many industries and occupations. For example, the automobile industry still makes cars, but robotics and computer-aided design technology have contributed to a radical reduction of the auto companies' workforces. Given such facts, it is no surprise that over recent years the labor movement has attempted to come to grips with the special problems faced by white-collar workers. We also mean professionals. One example is physicians who have organized unions to meet the new challenges presented by HMO's and other corporate health care delivery systems.
Writers are another example.
The Times policy raised serious questions about the future of copyright laws and intellectual property rights policies. Such issues' significance, and the consequent need to build closer ties between non-professional and professional workers, has not gone unnoticed by the U.S. labor movement's leaders. The evening was one of ten such gatherings at universities across the country during that same month. Throughout the 1990s, sentiment in favor of deepening alliances between traditional unions and professional unions has grown in both sectors. Two examples of such problem are given below.