The State of the Unions in the United States

The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, a progressive global network linked to Germany's Left Party, has published a report on how the US trade union movement has come to terms with neo-liberalism, union organising strategies as well as internal divisions including the split in the national trade union centre. Sean Sweeney, Director of the Global Labor Institute at Cornell University, analyses these recent historic development as well as the current state of US trade unions:
http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/turmoil-and-transition-the-recent-history-and-future-prospects-for-the-u-s-trade-union-movement/
http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/wp-content/files_mf/sweeney_stateoftheunions.pdf