Download or read book How Unions Can Help Restore the Middle Class written by Paula B. Voos and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcript of the testimony of Dr. Paula B. Voos, Professor, School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in 2009. She discusses the economic impact that labor unions have in the United States, especially on the middle class. She believes that greater union membership would help the U.S. recover from the current economic downturn and that it would help the U.S. transition to compete more effectively on the international level on the basis of high productivity, high quality, and innovation. She urges changes in our nation's labor law that would make it easier for workers to organize labor unions and to build a successful working relationship with their employer, free of unnecessary labor-management conflict.