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Originally Posted by Rumnlime
The reason workers are rejecting unions is their employers threaten them with factory closing and moving to Asia.
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That's very simplistic, it's much more complex than that. Society is different now than it was when unions were making most of their progress. All of the things that unions scream about today such as working too many hours, child labor, no time off for injuries, dangerous working conditions, etc, well, all of those things were ACTUALLY HAPPENING when unions became popular in this country. The golden age for unions was the late 1800's to mid 1900's - that is to say, from the end of the civil war lasting for about 50 years. This just isn't the same country anymore, and most unions these days are corporations in themselves, bureaucratic, entrenched, etc. It's just not the same world anymore. If you want to see REAL labor unions these days, you need to go to places like Central America where there is work to be done.