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tacobellhop@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Replace leaving the union with going to college instead and you get why we have a 3 generation straight loss in union membership.

People told their kids to chase more money and then spent that money on cheaper foreign products and the whole house fell down within 20 years.

This was the plan by the way for capitalists.

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Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Aren’t people with college educations more likely to end up in a union? One of the reasons some places don’t want to hire “overqualified” people is because they’re afraid of unionization.

There’s a variety of reasons for the decline of unions in the US, the main ones being:

Anti-union laws and propaganda (Mike Rowe being a big one)

Offshoring of manufacturing jobs

Major unions defanging themselves by purging radicals/communists to prove they’re “one of the good ones”
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- Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  No most higher education jobs aren’t union. Do you bother to lookup anything by yourself before you speak about things?
  
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  - Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    No most higher education jobs aren’t union.
    
    Literally not what I said at all. I said that you are more likely to be in a union if you have more education. Do you bother looking anything up before trying to incorrectly correct others?
    
    At this point it’s extremely obvious that you’re just trolling.
    
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    Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I’m not going to raise time to look, Im fairly sure someone did but regardless it’s widely known easily available information.
    
    aflcio.org/what-unions-do
    
    nlrb.gov/…/employer-union-rights-and-obligations
    
    It’s extremely obvious you are trolling or legitimately ignorant on basic civics, take your pick.
    
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JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Well, also, a lot of the union jobs simply don’t exist anymore. Not very many boilermakers, steamfitters, carmens, or glazers around anymore. So obviously union membership is going to be down.

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- tacobellhop@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  There are. They just don’t work in the western hemisphere. That was the idea. Let us starve and fight for the scraps as the most educated generation in human history.
  
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