The Washington Monthly

The Washington Monthly

There's a single core reason why this and so many other issues of class warfare have become increasingly acceptable: the decline of labor unions in America. None of this would happen — not PTOs, not stagnant working class wages, not skyrocketing CEO compensation, not declining healthcare coverage — if employers were forced to negotiate, market style, with labor unions that had roughly the same bargaining power as the corporations themselves. More on this later.

There is strength in a union.