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Americans Mainly Reject Labor Unions


Muda69

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https://www.cato.org/blog/americans-mainly-reject-labor-unions

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Union membership continues to decline, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Union membership fell from 6.3 percent of private‐sector employment in 2020 to 6.1 percent in 2021. Meanwhile, membership fell from 29.9 percent to 29.6 percent in state governments, and from 41.7 percent to 40.2 percent in local governments.

The chart shows that private‐sector membership has fallen steadily since the 1960s. Michael Saltsman notes that unions may gain the odd victory at a Starbucks location, but that is unlikely to change the overall trend. Meanwhile, the chart shows that the union share in the public sector remains high. I discuss some of the reasons why here.

The new data will be unwelcome to President Biden, who mistakenly sees unions as centrally important to the economy. He says that he wants to “provide workers with the choice to join a union and bargain collectively with their employers.” But private‐sector workers are rejecting that option, even though unions need just bare majority votes to impose themselves on workplaces.

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/sites/cato.org/files/styles/pubs_2x/public/2022-01/labor%20union%20shares.png?itok=9tmO07DHNotes: Chart data from BLS and unionstats. For more on labor unions, see here, here, and here.

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1 hour ago, Muda69 said:

The subject of the transformation in the public perception of organized labor over the years is fascinating. They’ve gone from protector of the common man, to thumb on the scales of the economy, to banker for organized crime, to now - largely political entities more interested in influencing national policy and national elections than their original role of providing an economic check on corporate disregard for anything but the bottom line.

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