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Additionally, declining union membership means current workers have less ability to bargain for better wages.
by c0nducktr 10y ago
Additionally, declining union membership means current workers have less ability to bargain for better wages.
- __jal 10y agoThis is a big thing that, oddly, a lot of folks in my cohort (~40s) are unwilling to admit. You don't have to like unions to admit they benefited workers. In fact, the money spent on the destruction of unions points to it - why bother if they didn't help workers? The post-WWII bargain, where productivity growth was split, is gone and not coming back. Whether there's a way to give workers a voice again or not is an interesting question. Of course, if the class differential gets too big, there's always the pitchfork and torch route, which I don't think anyone (OK, most sane people) wants.