>" The anti-union FUD campaign in the US has contributed significantly to the erosion of middle class wages over the past 50 years." That's quite a claim, do y

>" The anti-union FUD campaign in the US has contributed significantly to the erosion of middle class wages over the past 50 years." That's quite a claim, do you have any data to back that up? That just sounds like another claim intended to politicize things in some binary fashion - left vs right. Which is ironic because it is this same FUD tactic that politicians use to get people to react with their gut rather than their brain. You seem to be propagating this divisive tactic. There are many reason for a shrinking middle class in the US - loss of the manufacturing sector, an aging population, the decline in marriage rates, a more unequal income distribution and changing demographics such as an increase in racial and ethnic diversity.[1] Also the majority of of union members are now in public sector jobs and not private sector jobs.[2] The past 50 years has overall seen an increase in the public sector union jobs, trending slightly downward recently. Public-sector workers have a union membership rate (34.4 percent) more than five times higher than that of private-sector workers (6.4 percent).[3] [1] http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/12/09/the-american-middle-class-is-losing-ground/ http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/12/09/the-american-middl... [2] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/business/23labor.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/business/23labor.html [3] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/union2.pdf https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/union2.pdf