Union membership in the private sector has been steadily declining. In the 1980s, it was 12.1%, today it is 7.5%. Union organizers are discouraged and want to change the playing field.
At the Democratic Convention in Denver, 25% of the delegates are union members or belong to households of union members. And they want the Democrats to re-write labor law.
To wit: They want a Democratic congress and a Democratic president to sign into law a card check bill (i.e., The Employee Free Choice Act), which would do away with secret ballot elections. Since unions have been losing the majority of secret ballot elections, they want an environment where workers can be intimidated into joining unions, which is what would happen with card checks.
Next on their agenda is the repeal of right-to-work laws that currently exist in 22 states. It doesn’t matter to unions that such states have proven to be more economically beneficial to workers than heavily unionized states. Such statistics have been published by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Those states have higher employment figures, more rapidly growing GDP, and more job creation than their unionized cousins.
If the country winds up with a Democratic president and Democratic majority in both houses of congress, the union movement will not merely re-emerge, but it will dominate the workplaces of Corporate America.
