So many poor and working class Americans will see this and think, “Progress!”
Study: American workers in labor unions has fallen from nearly 35% in 1954 to just 10.5% in 2018
Submitted 11 months ago by theHRguy@lemmy.world to workreform@lemmy.world
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jerkface@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
BrightCandle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is why wages are failing to keep up with inflation now for decades. Breaking up the labour unions has been an enormous accelerator for the capitol owning classes.
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
What does it look like now?
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 11 months ago
Still pretty much 10% 😢
That’s not the whole story; raw number of members has ticked up but since unemployment is real low now and the rise is pretty slight, the percent of membership is still dropping. I’d love to be able to tell you it’s different, but that is the reality.