Kim Scipes has been a Member of the Graphics Communication International Union, the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association.  He is currently a Member of the National Writers Union.  Scipes, who recently retired and is now a Professor Emeritus Of Sociology at Purdue University Northwest in Indiana, recently penned an interesting Labor Perspective that was published in Common Dreams.  He opines, in short: The Labor Movement must innovate or stagnate.  The business Unionism of the past 40 years (in particular) has been a failure.  Either we think about Unionism in new ways and establish new ways of thinking about and joining other movements or most of our Unions die a long, slow, painful death.  It’s time we start rebuilding the Labor Movement, for the good of all!

To Read Scipes’ Labor Perspective, Go To: Opinion | US Unions Must Look Beyond Themselves to Save Themselves | Common Dreams