Kamala Harris blasts how workers lose $200 billion a year from the anti-union trend in the US econom
Kamala Harris blasts how workers lose $200 billion a year from the anti-union trend in the US economy
Juliana Kaplan at Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/kamala-harris-union-task-force-white-house-200-billion-wages-2021-5?utm_source=reddit.com
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President Joe Biden's new task force on strengthening unions and their participants officially kicked off on Thursday. In her opening remarks, Vice President Kamala Harris, who is chairing the task force, emphasized the impact of declining union membership on American workers.
Because of the decline in union membership, "American workers are losing $200 billion a year," she said, citing unspecified research. "So this impacts not only the quality of life of the American worker, this impacts the quality of life of all Americans because it impacts our economy.
"And to the extent that we are interconnected — when our economy does well, when the middle class does well — we all do well, which means unions must do well."
The task force is aimed at bolstering union membership and worker power, specifically in organizing and bargaining. Harris seemed to be citing research from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, which has studied the impact of "deunionizing" over the past few decades.
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