Comment by pjc50
7 years ago
> You don't change things by striking,
Traditionally union action including strikes has been the only way to make changes in big employers.
7 years ago
> You don't change things by striking,
Traditionally union action including strikes has been the only way to make changes in big employers.
I've never worked for a unionized company yet hey, I've been treated fairly.
You've only been treated fairly because of the substantial gains that unions have won for you in the past. You don't even realize how much worse it could be. Enjoying that 5-day 40-hour workweek? Without unions, it'd be a lot worse.
>You've only been treated fairly because of the substantial gains that unions have won for you in the past.
I'm treated fairly because it's the 21st century not 19th and early 20th century, when unions did most of their beneficial work. We have things like OSHA, fire marshals, etc. We have far more avenues of employment than in the 19th and early 20th centuries as well. And arguably more importantly, we have mobile broadcast platforms called cellphones that with a few taps of a screen can broadcast to a global audience to document conditions and immediately expose them.
Unions are dying, presumably because people don't want to be a part of them (can you blame them, there's countless documented instances of union corruption, in some instances with direct ties to organized crime ahem -> https://lrionline.com/mafiaunion-ties-still-strong/ )
In 2016, there were 14.6 million members in the U.S., down from 17.7 million in 1983. The percentage of workers belonging to a union in the United States was 10.7%, compared to 20.1% in 1983.
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