Roland Zullo, a research scientist at the University of Michigan, says organized labor is rolling with the punches and learning how to survive in spite of vanishing manufacturing jobs.
Dr. ZULLO: Honda, Toyota and so forth maintain decent wages and benefits for their employees, in part out of the threat that the UAW will come in and organize those units.
Dr. ZULLO: Although there's some advantage to being a union which specializes in an industry, the process of forming a union and then bargaining and getting a decent contract, there's quite a few sort of universal concepts that apply across all different occupation types.