High Tech
New Deck:

A New Deal for High Tech Workers

The rapidly changing communications and technology sector in our economy poses fundamental challenges - and opportunities - for America's unions and communities as they strive to build better jobs and stronger communities.

In 1960, 40 percent of the workforce was in jobs making things - including manufacturing and construction - while only 20 percent worked in office, white collar or technological jobs. Today, 40 percent of workers are in the office economy and 20 percent are involved in making things.

Even these numbers understate the magnitude of the change occurring, because the office and technological jobs of today bear little resemblance to those of the past. Increasingly, white collar jobs are technologically driven demanding ever-higher skill levels.

These fundamental changes raise the need for new kinds of union operations and programs that responds to the new reality of the high tech workplace and the changing character of the workforce.

The Changing Communication Industry 
New Realities 
Electrical Degrees at the National Labor College 
Communications Hiring Halls 
New Routing with Cisco 

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