Union membership as a percentage of the workforce
Yep that's the right metric, even if absolute numbers are up in relative terms to the working population it's still incredibly low.
The nerds call it union density and its been trending down for decades, unfortunately.
what about the many hot union summers and building the may 1st general strikes I keep hearing about
Can't wait for the
BidenHarrisWins account to tweet out this important milestone for the most pro Union administration since FDRI'm actually surprised to see this given how much attention major unions have gotten in the media over the past couple of years
The popular pseudo-left claim that Unions were having "their moment" under Biden would be analogous to claiming the Palestinian rights movement was having their "moment" during the past year
As always, context reigns supreme
Look I'm giving no credit to the president and strikebreaker in chief lol I'm just saying I have heard a lot from Starbucks, Amazon, and other smaller places, it just surprises me that even with that there is still a loss of union jobs. I guess every moment you're not hearing about it is when the backsliding is happening
I think in a lot of those cases it is unionized trying to make a union and not always succeeding, so they wouldn't be counted among the numbers of unionized workers. The ones that do succeed compromise hundreds, maybe a few thousand people, which is not a large part of the work force.
Look I'm giving no credit to the president and strikebreaker in chief lol
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply you were doing that, I was just outlining the most common liberal rhetorical strategy when it comes to unions since 2020
It is surprising if you haven't been keeping up on the details (and not everyone can, obviously). The media, including social media, presented the last 4 years as being a revitalization of union power after like 40-50 years of decline.
The reality is while there has more discussion in the media about unions and what unions can do for workers, and support for unionizing has broadly seemingly been on a popular rise, this has not been translated into workers actually unionizing.
I know people will have a tendency to cope over this stuff, me included of course, and reason internally like "ah, well, gotta start somewhere" and "as younger generations begin working and move up to more experienced working positions, the workplaces might unionize!" Maybe. Maybe they will. Then again, maybe Trump gets a thinly veiled law (called "pro workers act for raising wages of unionizing bargaining workers who want wages bill act law") passed to effectively make unionizing, collective bargaining, illegal. Which one right now seems more likely? Yeah...
thank u for informing me with this post comrade