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"Who Killed American Unions?" Powerful graph shows shows middle class income
Posted: Jan 17, 2013
From The Atlantic: "Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker doesn't like unions, and unions don't like him. But the most remarkable thing about Walker's relationship to labor isn't that he thinks unions are worthless -- most Republicans agree -- but that he thinks about them, at all.
Today, unions have been swept into dusty corners of the U.S. workforce, such as Las Vegas casino cleaners and New York City hotel staff.
For much of the 20th century, things were different. Almost every person living in the Northeast, Midwest and California "was in a union himself/herself, had a family member in a union, or, at least, had a friend or neighbor in a union," Rich Yeleson, veteran in the labor movement, writes in The New Republic. The apogee of the unions was also the apogee of the middle class, when it commanded more than half of total income. As the union membership rate dropped, middle class share of income fell, too."
Sorry, the graph wouldn't copy, so use the link below for it and to find out what the heck happened to U.S. wages. The graph shows two lines dropping together from upper left to bottom right--where we are today.
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I would say that the union demise - sm
[ In Reply To ..]is their own fault. They've gone from being workers' advocates to political, special-interest activists.
I agree. People who are already strapped (sm) - NM
[ In Reply To ..]for cash in this entitlement society we live in now are tired of having money taken out of their checks without even having a choice in the matter. The unions have just become another bunch of thugs.
Unions needed shooting, burying, and to be newborn - long ago. They're small potatoes now.
[ In Reply To ..]Coincidentally, so is the American worker. MTs come here to complain and post "messages to the boss" that they simply cannot deliver themselves without being fired. But once we did--together, through our unions--and the companies listened.
Nurses did it. In 1978 I made $5.25/hr as a ..... - VTMT
[ In Reply To ..]nonunion RN. Thirty years later, same hospital with nurses union, $40/hr.
And acute care nurses earn every penny. - nm
[ In Reply To ..]x
"They" being the middle class also. I agree unions got so - bad I wouldn't join one. BUT that we
[ In Reply To ..]abandoned unions instead of fixing them is by far one of the stupidest things the middle class has ever done.
The rise of the middle class as a direct result of poor workers unionizing for collective bargaining should have made very obvious what was going to happen when we just stopped. After all, the older among us watched almost the entire thing happen. Grew up with working parents eking out a modest living, raised our own children like real-life Happy Days, then the decline.
Not that we're at bottom yet because many of us managed to accrue some modest "wealth" that's carrying us right now. But many of our kids are already living it.
Disagree - mbmt
[ In Reply To ..]So, are you saying that it is the fault of the workers that unions have diminished power? After all, unions are made up of everyday workers. Why do you think middle class incomes have fallen?
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