document: Union outreach - a pilgrim 's progress As the American labor movement continues on its path toward reorganization and rejuvenation , archivists are challenged to ensure that the organizational , political , and cultural changes labor unions are experiencing are fully documented . The article examines the need for labor archivists to reach out actively to unions and the problems they face in getting their message across , not only to union leadership but also to union members . Outreach by labor archivists is vital on three critical fronts : the need to secure union funding in support of labor archival programs ; obtaining union cooperation in reviewing and amending obsolete deposit agreements ; and coordinating efforts with unions to save the records of closing district and local union offices . Attempting to resolve these outstanding issues , labor archivists are pulled between two distinct institutional cultures -LRB- one academic in nature , the other enmeshed in a union bureaucracy -RRB- and often have their own labor archival programs compromised by the internal dynamics and politics inherent in administering large academic libraries and unions . If labor archivists are to be successful , they must find their collective voice within the labor movement and establish their relevancy to unions during a period of momentous change and restructuring . Moreover , archivists need to give greater thought to designing and implementing outreach programs that bridge the fundamental `` disconnect '' between union bureaucracies and the rank and file , and unions and the public
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