Re: "It does seem that U.S. labor unions are dying."
Obviously, we've seen a decline in the traditional factory union jobs, as Big Business has shuttered American factories to take advantage of cheap labor in the Far East and Central America. Still, some 16.5 million people in the United States today are represented by a union. Hardly moribund. Most unions are affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
The following was pulled from the AFL-CIO's excellent Web site (www.aflcio.org.)
The American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a voluntary federation of 64 national and international labor unions.
... We are teachers and teamsters, musicians and miners, firefighters and farm workers, bakers and bottlers, engineers and editors, pilots and public employees, doctors and nurses, painters and laborers—and more.
If you're in a union, you made, on average, $156 more a week than your non-union counterpart. |
