The private-sector unionization rate in the U.S. has fallen to just six per cent, half of where it stood as recently as 1990
The pandemic era has delivered conditions that are “as good as it gets from the underlying economic conditions perspective for organized labour,” said Jake Rosenfeld, a sociologist at Washington University in St. Louis. But unions have failed to make widespread gains, underscoring that “without something fundamental in labour law reform, it’s really an impossible goal,” he said.
“We know from past research that successful strikes prove contagious,” said Prof. Rosenfeld, the author of. “Strikes tend to occur in bursts, as unionized workers look around and see what their compatriots are doing in other industries.” “If you look at both the writers and the actors, a lot of them say their pay, benefits and conditions of work have really been degraded over the past 10 to 15 years because of technology and because of the changing business model of the industry,” said John Logan, a labour scholar at San Francisco State University.“The labour movement has historically not been very good at communicating why people should care about the right to organize or the right to strike,” he said.
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