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.
> Unions are dying, presumably because people don't want to be a part of them
Couldn't this also be down to rules against union busting being relaxed and companies like Amazon taking full advantage thus making it difficult for people to join a union even if they wanted to?
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.
> Unions are dying, presumably because people don't want to be a part of them
Couldn't this also be down to rules against union busting being relaxed and companies like Amazon taking full advantage thus making it difficult for people to join a union even if they wanted to?
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