The American union has made greater job security its chief priority.

By contrast, he says, American unions have been mostly out for themselves.

American unions are still in many ways swimming against the tide.

This aspect of the state of the American union is far from strong.

This is an important issue to American and European unions.

It remains more liberal and politically engaged than most other American unions.

Given the record of American unions over the last 15 years, the conservative political climate, baseball's current agenda, it could have been worse.

Catholic union members and leaders played important roles in steering American unions away from socialism.

The problem is getting American unions to fight for common concerns as opposed to narrow institutional interests.

The traditional American union was formed to protect workers from unfair labor practices such as low wages and poor working conditions.