None of the unions I belonged to EVER helped me. They took my money and said, when I had a complaint, “Don’t rock the boat.”
So union decertification is the membership kicking their union to the curb? Wow! I didn’t know you could do that. It seems like once a union gets its foot into the door it practically takes an act of God to shoo them away.
http://dailysignal.com/2015/01/23/union-membership-rate-falls-100-year-low/
Union Membership Rate Falls to 100-Year Low
23JAN2015
New information from the federal government suggests workers’ interest in unions continues to fall, with union membership reaching its lowest rate in 100 years.
According to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics today, the union membership rate fell to 11.1 percent, with just 14.6 million wage and salaried workers maintaining membership.
In 2013, the union membership rate was 0.2 percentage points higher, at 11.3 percent.
The rate of union membership has been on a steady decline over the past three decades. It grew slightly from 12.1 percent in 2007 to 12.4 percent in 2008. During President Obama’s first year in office, however, it fell once more.
James Sherk, a labor economics policy economist at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal that the drop in the rate of union membership can likely be attributed to the antiquated union model.
“They’re selling a product that hasn’t changed that much since the 1930s when America’s labor laws were founded,” he said. “Today’s workers simply aren’t that interested in purchasing what unions have to sell.”
Sherk said that unions have failed to modernize over time and noted that workers are moving away from joining because their contracts are no longer relevant.