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yortsed snacilbuper

(7,939 posts) Wed Jun 4, 2014, 06:28 AM Jun 2014

When Union Density Goes Up, Income Inequality Goes Down.

All Workers Do Better in Pro-Union States

------------------------------------Anti-Union States------------------Pro-Union States
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When Union Density Goes Up, Income Inequality Goes Down. (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Jun 2014 OP

Here's what the Corporate 1% cares about: Fewer workers = Better Wall Street performance. WinkyDink Jun 2014 #1

And anti-union Taft-Hartley style laws are unique to the US among developed nations. pampango Jun 2014 #2

WinkyDink

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1. Here's what the Corporate 1% cares about: Fewer workers = Better Wall Street performance.

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Wed Jun 4, 2014, 06:32 AM

Jun 2014

pampango

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2. And anti-union Taft-Hartley style laws are unique to the US among developed nations.

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Wed Jun 4, 2014, 06:46 AM

Jun 2014

Republicans can pat themselves on the back for passing TH over Truman's veto. They got just what they wanted - weak unions and rising inequality in incomes skewed towards the 1%. Union density peaked at the time of TH and has been declining in the US ever since.

Figures on union density among developed counties. Guess who is on the bottom.

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