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Posted: 3/23/2013 12:58:35 PM EST
FILE - In this Feb. 4, 1938 file photo, a crowd of 80,000 to 100,000 unemployed members of the United Auto Workers fill Cadillac Square in Detroit to protest against their unemployment and plea for relief measures. On Thursday, March 28, 2013, Michigan's right-to-work law takes effect, a stunning shift in this symbolic capital of organized labor. The historic change is just the latest sign of turmoil in the union movement that has seen its nationwide membership shrink to its lowest levels since at least the 1930s - a paltry 6.6 percent in the private sector. (AP Photo/File)
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Posted: 3/23/2013 11:23:36 AM EST
FILE - In this Feb. 4, 1938 file photo, a crowd of 80,000 to 100,000 unemployed members of the United Auto Workers fill Cadillac Square in Detroit to protest against their unemployment and plea for relief measures. (AP Photo/File)
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Posted: 3/23/2013 11:23:36 AM EST
The United Auto Workers Local 174 sign stands outside their building in Romulus, Mich. on Friday, March 22, 2013. With 14.4 million members, unions still can be a potent political force at the ballot box. But protests in recent years over the passage of right-to-work laws in Michigan and Indiana, clashes over collective bargaining in Wisconsin and Ohio and a sharp drop in union elections across the U.S. have raised larger questions: Where do unions go from here? How they do mend their battered image? Can they recruit new members? And is organized labor even a movement any longer? (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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Posted: 3/23/2013 11:23:36 AM EST
United Auto Workers Local 174 President John Zimmick works in his office in Romulus, Mich. on Friday March 22, 2013. A picture of Martin Luther King Jr. hangs on the wall. Unions still have influence in blue-state strongholds, but the days are long gone when labor leaders were household names and generous contracts were virtually assured. Even in friendly terrain, there are both die-hard supporters and workers who've abandoned the movement. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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Posted: 3/23/2013 11:23:36 AM EST
United Auto Workers Local 174 President John Zimmick works in his office in Romulus, Mich. on Friday March 22, 2013. Zimmick worries not just about his local - but the fate of all unions. "It weighs on me every single night before I go to bed," he says. "Unions don't have the leverage and power that we used to. It doesn't mean we won't regain it. The unions, in my opinion, will come roaring back. .... But the image is terrible right now. The media spins us as hurting business and the non-union workers — there's animosity and jealousy toward us." (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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Posted: 3/23/2013 11:23:36 AM EST
United Auto Workers Local 174 President John Zimmick stands in front of historical union memorabilia in Romulus, Mich. on Friday March 22, 2013. On Thursday, March 28, 2013, Michigan's right-to-work law takes effect, a stunning shift in this symbolic capital of organized labor. The historic change is just the latest sign of turmoil in the union movement that has seen its nationwide membership shrink to its lowest levels since at least the 1930s - a paltry 6.6 percent in the private sector. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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Posted: 12/6/2012 3:33:38 PM EST
United Auto Workers President Bob King waits outside the Capitol in Lansing, Mich., Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012 as Senate Republicans introduced right-to-work legislation in the waning days of the legislative session. The outnumbered Democrats pledged to resist the proposal and said rushing it through the legislative system would poison the state's political atmosphere. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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Posted: 11/11/2012 2:38:22 PM EST
In this Nov. 6, 2012 photo, United Auto Workers member Harry Van Uden attends a rally on Election Day at the UAW Region 1 technical training center in Warren, Mich. Only a couple of weeks after Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, the man who would become his Republican challenger in the next election penned a New York Times column with a fateful headline: “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.” Those four words would haunt Mitt Romney across the Rust Belt, where auto manufacturing remains an economic pillar _ especially Ohio, which every successful GOP presidential nominee has carried, and his home state of Michigan, where his father was an auto company executive and governor. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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Posted: 11/6/2012 3:29:10 PM EST
United Auto Workers retiree Jackie Smith listens during a rally on Election Day at the UAW Region 1 technical training center in Warren, Mich., Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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Posted: 11/6/2012 2:03:33 PM EST
United Auto Workers member Keely Bell, right, helps Cecilia Mealy find her polling location, while knocking on doors to remind people to vote on Election Day Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012 in Warren, Mich. For Bell, 42, this was her first up-close view of a UAW Election Day. She'd been out of work for two-and-a-half years, after losing a long-time office job, when a rebounding Chrysler hired her to a nearby assembly two years ago. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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Posted: 9/7/2012 1:50:44 PM EST
President of the United Auto Workers Bob King addresses the second session of Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, September 5, 2012. REUTERS/Jim Young
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Posted: 9/7/2012 1:50:44 PM EST
President of the United Auto Workers Bob King addresses the second session of Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, September 5, 2012. REUTERS/Jim Young
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Posted: 9/7/2012 10:01:22 AM EST
President of the United Auto Workers Bob King addresses the second session of Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, September 5, 2012. REUTERS/Jim Young
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Posted: 9/7/2012 10:01:22 AM EST
President of the United Auto Workers Bob King addresses the second session of Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, September 5, 2012. REUTERS/Jim Young
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Posted: 9/6/2012 8:54:21 PM EST
President of the United Auto Workers Bob King addresses the second session of Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, September 5, 2012. REUTERS/Jim Young
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Posted: 9/6/2012 8:54:21 PM EST
President of the United Auto Workers Bob King addresses the second session of Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, September 5, 2012. REUTERS/Jim Young
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Posted: 9/6/2012 9:03:28 AM EST
President of the United Auto Workers Bob King addresses the second session of Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, September 5, 2012. REUTERS/Jim Young
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Posted: 9/6/2012 9:03:28 AM EST
President of the United Auto Workers Bob King addresses the second session of Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, September 5, 2012. REUTERS/Jim Young
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Posted: 9/5/2012 11:30:50 PM EST
President of the United Auto Workers Bob King addresses the second session of Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, September 5, 2012. REUTERS/Jim Young
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Posted: 9/5/2012 11:30:50 PM EST
President of the United Auto Workers Bob King addresses the second session of Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, September 5, 2012. REUTERS/Jim Young
