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Oct 5, 2023 · After decades of decline, American unions are once again challenging employers and using strikes to fight for better contracts. For the first time in recent memory, unions are taking strong,...
Feb 12, 2024 · The labor scene in the United States is undergoing a significant transformation, with implications for the future of unions. While traditional union models have faced challenges, there are emerging trends and opportunities that suggest a potential resurgence and adaptation.
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By the mid-1950s, unions in the US had successfully organized approximately one out of every three non-farm workers. This period represented the peak of labor’s power, as the ranks of unionized workers shrank in subsequent decades. The decline gained speed in the 1980s and 1990s, spurred by a combination of economic and political developments. The ...
At its peak, the US labor movement stood alongside powerful business leaders and policymakers as key institutions shaping the nation’s economy and polity. Union workers enjoyed healthy union “wage premiums,” or increases in pay resulting directly from working under a union-negotiated contract. But nonunion workers also benefited from a strong labor...
The labor movement now finds itself in a peculiar period. On the one hand, ongoing attacks by anti-union forces have crippled unions’ organizational models in what were labor strongholds, including Wisconsin and Michigan. Many of these attackshave taken dead aim at what remains of labor’s real strength: its public sector membership base. Abetted by...
- Jake Rosenfeld
Jan 6, 2023 · In 2022, workers in the United States voted to form more unions than they have in nearly 20 years, and labor has recently organized at companies in almost every industry. But most business...
Jun 14, 2024 · Organized labor saw a historic resurgence in activity in 2023. Shifting U.S. trade policy under both Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden could continue to prioritize workers regardless of who...
- Upamanyu Lahiri
Feb 28, 2023 · Only one in ten American workers is now in a union, down from nearly one in three workers during the heyday of unions back in the 1950s. To be sure, various data makes clear that the hubbub...
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Nov 10, 2024 · There were breakthroughs at companies like Starbucks and Amazon, and unions prevailed in organizing a major foreign auto plant in the South. A United Automobile Workers walkout yielded...
