Trends in Union Corporate Campaigns - US Chamber of Commerce

CORPORATE TARGETS
Corporate campaigns are not isolated phenomena. A count of
these efforts from their inception in 1974 through 1999, for
example, identified approximately 200 such engagements, with
the number increasing at an accelerating rate. 20 Not coincidentally,
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney promised during his inaugural
address in 1995,
We will use old-fashioned mass demonstrations, as well as
sophisticated corporate campaigns, to make worker rights
the civil rights issue of the 1990s. 21
It is likely that the total number of such efforts is now approaching
300 or more. Table 2 lists a selection of companies targeted in
union or movement-wide corporate campaigns during the period
2000-2005. Some of these campaigns are still underway at this
writing. A review of the list will show that companies are targeted
without respect to their size, location, industry or prominence.
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