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Strong Labor Image Harmful to Cleveland?

Labor unions in Northeast Ohio, as elsewhere around the country, are able to flex considerably less muscle today than they have in the past. Cleveland is long recognized as a big union town, and some have argued that new companies - or existing ones looking to relocate - cast a wary eye on the city because of its strong labor image. Are they right? George Buckingham is a professor of business at Cleveland State University, and a former deputy director for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service in Washington. We put the question to him.