Nationally Union Membership has gone down from 12.4% of the work force to 12.1%. If you ask me that is 12.5% to much. However the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment has this to say about it
http://www.irle.ucla.edu/research/pd...Unions2010.pdf
Quote:
Despite consistently lower unionization rates in the private sector than in the public sector, the much larger size of the private sector workforce has meant that there have traditionally been a larger number of union workers in the private sector. This has now changed. For the first time ever, the number of union members in the public sector is greater than the number of private sector union members.
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As you see. Union jobs are
DYING! Why? Because Unions are bad.
Once upon a time Unions may have been necessary. Workers had to work 12 hours a day while the CEO got rich getting payed 60 times the average worker's pay. Will things are different now. Ever were you look it is rare to see a worker who does a 8 hour day. As for the CEO they have moved
far beyond this 60 times the average worker class warfare stuff and are modestly rewarded with a benefit package and bonuses for their performance by the company's board of directors.
You ask any worker today and they will tell you they are happy to have a job.
So time to get rid of unions for ever.