There’s Still Hope For American Unions
But It’s a Long Climb Back
“When I was a little kid growing up in L.A. in the 1950s, about one in three American workers belonged to unions,” said Washington Post columnist and American Prospect editor-at-large Harold Meyerson. But today, only 30 percent of public-sector workers and 6.6 percent of private-sector workers are unionized. The decline of unions, Meyerson told a crowd at the California Endowment, might not be the only reason today’s U.S. middle class is less prosperous than that of a half century ago. But it is a major factor, particularly when you consider …
