Janie,

Evolutionary processes are very hard to predict, because they will respond to what is presented as an obstacle to survival. Hence, the labor movement will be a result of their own activities, the political process, and happenings around the world. What I can say is this. Due to globalization of business, all that is old will become new. The IWW (Wobblies) were about a century ahead of their time. In those days, communications and transportation being what they were, the idea of an employer that was abusing his workers in Iowa having a problem with Unions as a result, in Romania, just wasn't feasible. But today that is the case. A good guess as to where labor will head will be towards a truly international model. We see a lot of this already. I don't see the USA unions merging with others in other countries soon, as the US labor unions are all independent of government control other than the laws they operate under. Many union in other countries function as an arm of government. But I believe that workers around the world will unite more and more, and the labor movement will be the impetus behind that.

More later,

Mick