The Daily Signal
The Harris-Walz campaign used Labor Day to advocate for the power of Big Labor, thanking the “organizers, activists, workers, and leaders of the labor movement who have helped build this nation.”
But the Biden-Harris administration’s embrace of Big Labor—as in big national labor organizations, as opposed to small, local unions—actually hasn’t helped workers as unionized workers’ wages have fallen behind the wages of nonunion workers over the past four years.
Unlike small local unions that are in better positions to represent the unique needs of their members and that may even have productive relationships with management, the Big Labor movement is increasingly putting politics, power, and one-size-fits-all policies above the personal well-being of many workers.
As nationwide Big Labor organizations are expanding their reach by representing workers across entirely different occupations and industries, they’re becoming increasingly disconnected from the everyday workplace concerns of the individual workers they are supposed to represent, and the consequences are evident in workers’ choices and paychecks.
Despite the Biden-Harris administration asserting itself as the most pro-union administration ever, and employing a “whole of government” approach to increasing unionization across the U.S., the unionization rate is at an all-time low of 10% (just 6% among private-sector workers).
In states that don’t force workers to join a union as a condition of employment, only 5.7% of workers are unionized.
That’s down from a high of roughly 35% of workers who were unionized in the 1950s.
So, why has unionization plummeted? Simply put, unions are providing less and less of the things that workers want, and more of the things they don’t want.
For starters, many workers don’t like unions spending their dues on politics, instead of representation, and some don’t want to be forced to be represented by a union that they believe hates them.
Most workers also don’t like adversarial work environments, but pitting workers against employers—including dehumanizing tactics like unions’ iconic use of 12-foot blowup rats to depict management—is Big Labor’s bread and butter…
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