4. Articles on Union Mergers Read the article, ‘‘Falling Union Membership Prompting Mergers,’’ excepted from Laura M. Litvan’s

‘‘Unions Have an Urge to Merge,’’ published in Investor’s Business Daily, August 8, 1997, and reproduced on the Web page for the National Center for Policy Analysis. What is one of the reasons that the author gives for the surge in mergers?

If your university or college has access to the Journal of Labor Research, either in print or online, locate an article published in 2004 by Gary Chaison, ‘‘Union Mergers in the U.S. and Abroad.’’ What does the author say are the two basic forms of union mergers?

What does he gives as the reasons for and barriers to mergers?