Since the posted article is a 1996 one, here's the heading of one of this website's latest offerings:
June 2003 - VOLUME 24 - NUMBER 6
L a b o r v s. B u s h
Winning is Possible
Successful Union Organizing
in the United States —
Clear Lessons, Too Few Examples
By Kate Bronfenbrenner and Robert Hickey
http://multinationalmonitor.org/mm2003/03june/june03corp1.html Thanks! It was the "symbol manipulator" phrase that I have been seeing crop up very recently, that made me do a search.