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
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.
The popular pseudo-left claim that Unions were having "their moment"
More a consequence of existing unions successfully bargaining for better wages/working conditions, and a few early organizing successes (Starbucks, Amazon), than a universal rise in union membership. It had far less to do with Biden than liberals would like you to believe. The post-COVID labor pool compression has offered organizers more leverage than they've enjoyed in my lifetime.
But Unions are so emaciated after decades of evisceration that overall shifts in the employment pool don't significantly affect their membership.
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
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
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.
More a consequence of existing unions successfully bargaining for better wages/working conditions, and a few early organizing successes (Starbucks, Amazon), than a universal rise in union membership. It had far less to do with Biden than liberals would like you to believe. The post-COVID labor pool compression has offered organizers more leverage than they've enjoyed in my lifetime.
But Unions are so emaciated after decades of evisceration that overall shifts in the employment pool don't significantly affect their membership.