Organized Labor Sees Upswing After Years of Decline

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Organized Labor Sees Upswing After Years of Decline

September 6, 2021 at 4:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 8 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/09/06/organized-labor-sees-upswing-after-years-of-decline/

"SNIP......

Axios: “Labor unions represent a larger percentage of U.S. workers than at any time in the past five years, as the pandemic took its biggest bite out of non-unionized jobs.”

“America’s labor movement isn’t quite resurgent, but it is showing signs of life after decades of decline.”

“In 2020, 10.8% of all wage and salaried workers were members of unions, up 0.5% from 2019. That’s the highest mark since 2015.”

.....SNIP"

[Duncanpup]

1. Awesome I've held union card for 34 years

[Scrivener7]

2. Wow. 10.8%. I don't know where I would be without my union. I feel so lucky to belong to one.

[ARPad95]

3. I don't think this is the way a union should express its outrage over non-union workers

being hired for a public school project:

https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2021/09/04/edison-superintendent-fights-union-knocking-over-casket-placed-in-front-of-elementary-school/

Edison Superintendent Fights Union, Knocking Over Casket Placed In Front Of Elementary School

EDISON, NJ – The LIUNA Local 77 is upset after the Edison School District agreed to use cheaper, non-union labor to build a $9 million expansion at the Lincoln Elementary School. Now, the union claims the district and Superintendent Bernie Bragen are taking food off their member families’ tables.

In retaliation, on Friday, the union showed up at the school with a casket draped with a sign that read “Irresponsible contractors are killing middle class wages.”

[Scrivener7]

4. You respond to a post about the increase in union membership with a completely unrelated

post about a random union's fight with a school superintendent.

That's called hijacking. It's transparent. And it's not nice.

[ARPad95]

5. I think unions are good for workers. My husband belonged to one his entire career. This incident

happened last week at a public school where teachers are unionized. It doesn't help others who have been brainwashed to think unions (construction workers or teachers) are bad to change their minds. Hence, it's related to a post about union membership.