Nearly 900,000 Americans sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner this week will have unions – and the double-digit pay increases they won – to thank.
That’s how many unionized workers have won immediate pay hikes of 10% or more in just the last year, according to an analysis by CNN.
And the pace of increases of that size have been picking up. More than 700,000 of those workers won pay hikes over the course of the last six months, and of that group, nearly 300,000 saw deals reached in just the last six weeks.
“I would say this is the best run of wage increases won by labor since the period right after the end of World War II,” said Art Wheaton, director of labor studies at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations in Buffalo.
Strong unions make strong businesses.
Now let’s pass some union reform laws and get rid of “right to work” on the federal level.
Unions are getting paid because corporations have gigantic piles of cash lying around right now (because of record profits), and they were hoping to just keep it for themselves somehow
They thought the words “economic headwinds” would really just make the workers go “ah ok, sure. Keep hoarding away”
It’s not enough. Not until everyone is paid what they’re actually worth will it ever be enough.
Now imagine if we had some way to send people that could represent our needs to the government. If only we could house such a group of people near the seat of government so that they could petition our needs in the form of … I don’t know let’s call it a bill of writ and law.
If only we could have something like that, too.
Not nearly enough. We need a lot more participation. That’s gonna help with the money in politics problem too. This is the solution used the last time inequality and its socioeconomic effects were at this level, and it worked for a while.