On Labor Day, support for unions plunges to all-time low
Before this year, American support for unions had remained remarkably stable for nearly four decades. In August 2001, in the first months of George W. Bush's presidency, Gallup's results for the same question were 60 percent approve, 32 percent disapprove. In August 1997, in Bill Clinton's second term, they were 60-31. In 1985, during Ronald Reagan's presidency, the figures were 58-27. In 1978, during Jimmy Carter's time in the White House, they were ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via Fair Spin (Right)
If unions help workers to get their fair share of wages and benefits from corporations, they're good. If they become self-serving mechanisms for extorting exorbitant wages from companies and driving jobs overseas, they're bad. It looks, at least in some cases, as though they've outlived their usefulness.