Posted on 01/30/2019 8:05:58 PM PST by aimhigh
The government releases statistics each year showing how many workers are members of unions, and the trend is undeniable: Big Labor continues to lose importance in the American workforce. This year’s results from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) follow the long-term trend.
In the private sector, union density—the labor-nerd term for the proportion of the workforce who are union members—tied an all-time low of 6.4 percent. Meanwhile, the overall union density fell to an all-time low of 10.5 percent, with public-sector union density falling by 0.5 percent—a possible harbinger of consequences from the Janus v. AFSCME decision which ended forced union fees in the government sector.
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The worst years of my working life were the years I spent in the Teamsters union. That environment was straight up criminal.
union density—the labor-nerd term for the proportion of the workforce who are union members—tied an all-time low of 6.4 percent. Meanwhile, the overall union density fell to an all-time low of 10.5 percent, with public-sector union density falling by 0.5 percent—a possible harbinger of consequences from the Janus v. AFSCME decision which ended.
Many problems could be solved by abolishing government unions.
Too bad, my heart bleeds. Federal workers should not be allowed to unionize. A union concerns itself with nothing more than control and money, a private adjunct to the government.
UPS caved into the Teamsters demands in 2018. Fed Ex is non-union. Will be interesting how long UPS will put up with Hoffa Jr. and his thugs.
I was for a year right after college. I told my boss once why i have to fork over a big portion of my hard earned dough to these clowns at every paycheck. Even after I quit, those same assh*les still wanted my money. Had to close my bank account and re-open another account just to get them off my back..
The focus should be on the unlawful public unions — the taxpayer is NOT represented.
Private sector unions may suck, but I generally don’t have a problem with them — providing no thuggery and graft.
Same here.
Yup.
People are just getting the word that they don’t have to pay, and tens of thousands drop out per month.
Oregon is proposing a law to force the State to pay the unions the equivalent of dues for every State employee, and to reduce their salaries proportionally.
It clearly violates the Supreme Court’s intent, and would create a perverse situation of the State paying for someone to oppose them - both sides in the so-called negotiations.
It makes it clearer that unions have become money laundering schemes of the Democratic Party, to skim from the Treasury.
So did my former employer. The union eventually drove them out of business, coast to coast.
Breaks my heart.
My dad was forced to join the Machinists Union when he got his first job in NYC , he told me that they basically held a gun to his head. No union membership, no job.
I can see some few, few times where such unions can help people. But those days ended a lomg long time ago. It just became another vector of greed and corruption, and showed countless times the union never cared about the workers, they just cared about the union.
They’re in the vote laundering, ur - harvesting, business now.
The lard-a$$ GOP needs to get up to speed on vote harvesting but I can find little on the methods. Anyone have some insight?
No thuggery and graft? In a union??? You might as well ask Santa Claus to shave.
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