“It’s become a lot more dangerous to strike in the last 30 years'...
More than 49,000 members of United Auto Workers are now on strike, walking off General Motors work floors in an effort to secure what they say are fair wages, affordable healthcare and job security.
The new UAW strike wasn’t a light decision, according to the union’s vice president, Terry Dittes. “We clearly understand the hardship that it may cause,” he said. “We are standing up for fair wages, we are standing up for affordable quality health care, we are standing up for our share of the profits,” he told the Associated Press.
Union membership rates could be dropping further. Among U.S. adults employed either full or part-time, 10% were union members as of August 2019, according to Gallup. Mishel said a closely-watched 1981 air-traffic controller strike set a new tone for companies. That year, 11,345 unionized air-traffic controllers walked off their government jobs and President Ronald Reagan ended up firing most of them. “That was sort of a signal to management this was now acceptable practice,” said Mishel. “It was not considered acceptable before.”
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