Unions are no longer willing to sit back and accept declining membership.
Instead we are all out there fighting to organize new workers. McEntee emphasized that there are vast opportunities to sign up future union members. Specifically, just in the 24 states where public employees have the right to collectively bargain, there are almost 2 million unorganized workers, and there are millions more in the public and private sector who don t have good wages or decent benefits. In addition to maintaining a strong political action program, McEntee stressed the continued need to counter privatization attempts. In Hawaii, a landmark court ruling said that public employees have the inherent right to do public work.