Unions shouldn’t even be necessary. There are more voters than there are companies, by a very wide margin. The fact that enough people in the right places are able to be convinced to vote against improving their own conditions is really the problem.
Are they stronger due to changes by the current government? Or are they stronger because the economy is weaking and more and more people are rembering that forming/joining unions can help improve their working conditions?
Some unions are stronger. I’m in a union and I don’t even have paid sick time after we just signed our first contract post covid. It makes me feel like it’s kind of useless, but it’s still better than no union. It’s an extremely mediocre feeling.
The most pro labor president in decades being an union buster just reinforces the point.
Unions shouldn’t even be necessary. There are more voters than there are companies, by a very wide margin. The fact that enough people in the right places are able to be convinced to vote against improving their own conditions is really the problem.
Unions are stronger than they’ve been in decades. Stop falling for clickbait and look at the actual results.
Are they stronger due to changes by the current government? Or are they stronger because the economy is weaking and more and more people are rembering that forming/joining unions can help improve their working conditions?
https://prospect.org/labor/2023-08-28-bidens-nlrb-brings-workers-rights-back/
Many of the positive changes can be traced to this.
I don’t disagree that that may help, it’s hard to draw a direct link between the two with the data I can see.
I guess we’ll have to wait for more data to come out.
The data I can find shows no improvement to union rates over Biden’s term https://www.statista.com/statistics/195349/union-membership-rate-of-employees-in-the-us-since-2000/
Some unions are stronger. I’m in a union and I don’t even have paid sick time after we just signed our first contract post covid. It makes me feel like it’s kind of useless, but it’s still better than no union. It’s an extremely mediocre feeling.
The major changes and gains have all happened in the last few months. It’ll take some time for the effects to spread out.