Can unions adapt to today's economic challenges?

Name: Can unions adapt to today's economic challenges?
Uploaded: 2016-09-05T23:16:51Z
Duration: P419S
Description: Union membership has been on the decline in the U.S. for decades, and is currently half of what it was in the 1980s. How are unions adapting in an era of stagnant wages and a growing “sharing economy”? Hari Sreenivasan talks with Harley Shaiken of the University of California, Berkeley and Mary Kay Henry, president of SEIU.

Clip: 09/05/2016 | 6m 59s

Union membership has been on the decline in the U.S. for decades, and is currently half of what it was in the 1980s. How are unions adapting in an era of stagnant wages and a growing “sharing economy”? Hari Sreenivasan talks with Harley Shaiken of the University of California, Berkeley and Mary Kay Henry, president of SEIU.

Aired: 09/05/16

Rating: NR

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