Who wants to join a union? A growing number of Americans
- Written by Thomas Kochan, George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management Professor, Work and Organization Studies Co-Director, MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
Fighting for a $15 an hour wage in PittsburghAP Photo/Keith SrakocicOnly 10.7 percent of American workers belong to a union today, approximately half as many as in 1983. That’s a level not seen since the 1930s, just before passage of the labor law that was supposed to protect workers’ right to organize.
Yet American workers have not...
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