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Are the unions hurting or helping the American worker.
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Drop in real income for American workers parallels drop in union membership.
That is true.
But why do unions keep trying to get better wages for there people when they know that it hurts the companies that are employing the members?
Unions are the reason why companies are moving jobs out of the US or to right to work states. If the union bosses would spend more time working with the companies instead of fighting them they would help keep jobs where they are.
At one time Unions were run by the workers and the rules where meant to be for the workers. Today, a lot of unions are just corrupt parasites who play politics with the workers, pit the workers against management, and suck the profit from the company while limiting workers upward mobility. Now instead of having one boss, some workers have found they have two that they have to support.
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[-8 points] 2 years ago by deleted user ReplyNo problem B.
Well said jon.
I am not overly pro union but the more I learn about economics the more it points to the fact that without labor unions there is no or very little middle class.
Any country that has a middle class can trace it back to the rise in labor unions. It also looks like the decline in unions (for some of the reasons stated above) has caused the erosion of the middle class and has increased the gap between them and the upper class.