September 29, 2015
By Tim Jones
CHICAGO — Unions might never recover (click here) the strength they had decades ago, but recent signs suggest renewed support for labor, or at least an end to its run as a Republican bogeyman.
After building a campaign around his battle with government workers, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker abruptly ended his presidential campaign Sept. 21. His decision came a month after a Gallup Poll found that support for unions jumped 5 percentage points in the past year to its highest level nationwide since 2008.
"People are waking up and realizing that unions are important to establishing balance in our economy," said Stephanie Bloomingdale, secretary-treasurer of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO. "People are very anxious about what's happening to the American middle class. And income inequality is at an all-time high."...
Unions are a vital part of the Middle Class. Organizing is guaranteed to the unions. Those two truths should register with legislators at the state and federal level that something is wrong and the working poor is the evidence.
It doesn't make sense. We know the unions are important to upward movement in the USA. The promise of Americans birth right is backed by the organization of unions to value labor. Yet, where did the unions go?
There is something wrong here and there needs to be an investigation to the collapse of unions in the USA. After all, TPP is a full frontal assault on unions and the security Americans find in support of their local economies. Why wait for it to happen?
By Tim Jones
CHICAGO — Unions might never recover (click here) the strength they had decades ago, but recent signs suggest renewed support for labor, or at least an end to its run as a Republican bogeyman.
After building a campaign around his battle with government workers, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker abruptly ended his presidential campaign Sept. 21. His decision came a month after a Gallup Poll found that support for unions jumped 5 percentage points in the past year to its highest level nationwide since 2008.
"People are waking up and realizing that unions are important to establishing balance in our economy," said Stephanie Bloomingdale, secretary-treasurer of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO. "People are very anxious about what's happening to the American middle class. And income inequality is at an all-time high."...
Unions are a vital part of the Middle Class. Organizing is guaranteed to the unions. Those two truths should register with legislators at the state and federal level that something is wrong and the working poor is the evidence.
It doesn't make sense. We know the unions are important to upward movement in the USA. The promise of Americans birth right is backed by the organization of unions to value labor. Yet, where did the unions go?
There is something wrong here and there needs to be an investigation to the collapse of unions in the USA. After all, TPP is a full frontal assault on unions and the security Americans find in support of their local economies. Why wait for it to happen?
