Labor's California Renaissance
Friday, December 21, 2018Believe the headlines — unions are in a period of deep decline, squeezed by government and corporate leaders actively hostile to collective bargaining and intent on rolling back what have long been considered intractable protections for the basic rights of working people. Proportionate to the overall workforce, union membership is plumbing the depths; only about 6 percent of private-sector workers are unionized, and public-sector unions (around 30 percent) are under constant assault. Rates in California are not much better..
But labor also is experiencing a kind of renaissance, not least in California, where public-sector unions have a strong hand in shaping the political landscape — and where a recent upsurge of vivacious private-sector organizing lends a certain promise to the otherwise dismal outlook.
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