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Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon Blue collar workers are unionised and are bleeding companies dry with their wage and benefit demands. |
You must know that is not true, Jet, yet you keep saying the same garbage:
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Union density (the percentage of workers belonging to unions) has been declining since the late 1940s, however. Almost 36% of American workers were represented by unions in 1945. Today that figure is around 12%. Significantly, the rapid growth of public employee unions since the 1960s has served to mask an even more dramatic decline in private sector union membership.
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Public sector worker unions are governed by labor laws and labor boards in each of the 50 states. Northern states typically model their laws and boards after the NLRA and the NLRB. In other states, public workers have no right to establish a union as a legal entity. (About 40% of public employees in the USA do not have the right to organize a legally established union.)
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At the apex of union density in the 1940s, only about 9.8% of public employees were represented by unions, while 33.9% of private, non-agricultural workers had such representation. In this decade, those proportions have essentially reversed, with 36% of public workers being represented by unions while private sector union density has plummeted to around 7%.
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Blue collar workers? 7% is hardly going to precipitate a mass flux of manufacturing basis to China . . .
Keep trying, but stick to some facts, please, but you are just talking crap . . . as usual
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The most prominent unions are found among public sector employees such as teachers and police.
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Union Membership Up Slightly in 2007 - washingtonpost.com Labor unions in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia