![]() Since 2010, union density has declined from almost 12% to to just over 10%, and there are more than 700, 000 fewer union members as an absolute number.Instead, the report paints a picture of the union world as an exclusive club sitting in a walled garden, watching its bank accounts swell even as all of those workers on the outside who need its help are disappointed. That money, however, has not been used to do the organizing necessary to prevent all of those unions from shrinking. ![]() The report shows that even as union density has continued its long decline over the past decade, the financial coffers of unions have expanded. ![]() Though unions are managed individually, anyone who believes in the necessity of a labor movement understands that all of organized labor must be able to act in concert to achieve broad social and economic goals - the most urgent of which is simply to give more people unions, since union density has now declined to barely over 10%. The good news is: now we can put some numbers on it.Ī new report from Chris Bohner, who runs the labor research firm Radish Research, has done an amazing service by systematically assembling thousands of financial records from unions over the past decade to assemble a report that gives the most comprehensive picture that I have ever seen of the current financial state of unions in America. ![]() The bad news is: that sickening feeling was correct. Well, there’s good news and bad news on that front. Many people who are passionate about the labor movement, myself included, have long had the vague but haunting sense that the most powerful institutions in the union world are not doing enough to stem the bleeding that has been sucking power from unions for decades. ![]()
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