Labor Unions have been part of American working society since the late 19th century. The formation of labor Unions reaped enormous improvements to the worker including increased wages, reduced working hours and improved working conditions. Unions overall provided representation for the large amount of factory workers who otherwise would have had no voice. Unions worked when there were jobs that could benefit from Union representation. Since the 1980s trade policies and technology has left Unions weaker and less important in today's society.
I think that Unions will continue to get weaker. For decades Unions supported a Democratic candidate and the Union members would follow in support. In the 2016 election things changed. According to the …show more content…
Currently only “11.1 percent of American workers belong to unions” (New York Times).This is a small number compared to the heydays of the the post World War United States. Unions have evolved to be insignificant in today's workforce that I do not see any way to recover. The world of maximizing profits, cheap contract labor and no benefit jobs have merely pushed Unions aside. As the Republican conservative platform grows under Trump, the significance of the Union representation will be forgotten. Unions will become less of a “countervailing power to balance corporate might” (New York Times). Union Labor will not be able to compete with low-wage non-Union jobs that have overtaken the current …show more content…
If their membership increases they will strengthen. Though their power of representation in the workforce is dwindling, they must find a way to stay relevant in today's very different times. Unions must start again from their roots to appeal to the average American worker. They must assemble a lot more workers than they currently have. They must define clear goals of union membership and ways they could improve the lives of workers. Unions need to rejuvenate their forms of representation and collective bargaining to compete with . Unions have given the United States many benefits. The United States was built from Union labor. In order to strengthen and stay relevant today they face an uphill battle with an full Republican government under
I think that Unions will continue to get weaker. For decades Unions supported a Democratic candidate and the Union members would follow in support. In the 2016 election things changed. According to the …show more content…
Currently only “11.1 percent of American workers belong to unions” (New York Times).This is a small number compared to the heydays of the the post World War United States. Unions have evolved to be insignificant in today's workforce that I do not see any way to recover. The world of maximizing profits, cheap contract labor and no benefit jobs have merely pushed Unions aside. As the Republican conservative platform grows under Trump, the significance of the Union representation will be forgotten. Unions will become less of a “countervailing power to balance corporate might” (New York Times). Union Labor will not be able to compete with low-wage non-Union jobs that have overtaken the current …show more content…
If their membership increases they will strengthen. Though their power of representation in the workforce is dwindling, they must find a way to stay relevant in today's very different times. Unions must start again from their roots to appeal to the average American worker. They must assemble a lot more workers than they currently have. They must define clear goals of union membership and ways they could improve the lives of workers. Unions need to rejuvenate their forms of representation and collective bargaining to compete with . Unions have given the United States many benefits. The United States was built from Union labor. In order to strengthen and stay relevant today they face an uphill battle with an full Republican government under