So when the next phase of the campaign is unveiled at congress this week, here are three practical policies that unions will press:

Northwest's unions, however, are pressing for more information and greater protection.

To some the Boeing agreement is a model of how unions can press for real commitments to retraining.

The union had been pressing since 1966 for equal pay for women performing the same jobs as men.

Many have said they like the extra pay but they are tired, and the union has been pressing Chrysler to hire more workers.

Alexander made it clear that the government could withdraw the revised offer if unions pressed ahead with strikes.

The optimism which greeted the 'workforce of the future' may have faded, but both the union and the company are pressing on with it.

In such efforts, unions press their corporate adversaries in many different ways and places at once.

Also, the unions were not pressing for much needed changes to the syllabuses of both the primary and secondary schools.

The unions are pressing their case in an action before the National Mediation Board.