CNNMoney, September 2, 2011, Friday

CNNMoney

September 2, 2011, Friday

CNNMoney (full article)

Not quite the union label

Richard W. Hurd, associate dean of the ILR School at Cornell University, studies and surveys professional workers and has written about hybrid organizations. Professionals "do want a voice at work, because of their education, their grasp of the field" they specialize in, he says. But "it's not clear what form it will take. Alliances are in some sense experimental forms."

While professional workers are deeply concerned about such issues as layoffs and jobs being sent overseas, Hurd believes it isn't clear whether those concerns will lead them to seek full-blown unionization.