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Great news!
“Public-sector workers, like police and teachers, had the highest unionization rates last year, at 33%. Just 6% of private-sector workers were unionized.”
I sorta wish these numbers could be reversed. Public sector unions are extremely harmful to our country. Private sector unions cause issues, but they also bring benefits.
Agreed, Clint. These are the worst and most unnecessary unions, since they put taxpayers in the crosshairs for jobs that are already basically shielded from market forces.
As one analyst who I follow noted, one subtle reason blue-collar unions are continuing to struggle is the intense promotion of identity politics. For many years, class struggles could bridge gaps among races: working class whites and blacks would work together to bargain collectively through their greater numbers. But with wokeness and CRT filth permeating the workplace, the trust across races that existed in the 1980s/90s is basically gone. White and black workers (or male/female, or white/Latino/black) look askance at one another and cannot find common grievances based on wages; their grievances are ethnic or gender based. This in turn creates a further incentive to outsource jobs to countries that are either more ethnically homogeneous, have no tolerance for woke crap, or simply put their ethnic minorities in conversion gulags. In other words, China.
I’m nowhere near as anti-union as I used to be, certainly in recognizing their role in bringing well-paying jobs to people with less education. But public sector unions are mostly white-collar in nature, securing bennies to people who already generally have college degrees and are generally ensured of jobs with a base pay far better than $15/hour, plus zero risk for workplace injury (law enforcement accepted).
Thankfully, even amidst their high unionization rates, teachers unions are declining steadily too, as it becomes obvious that they are a major tool used to politicize classrooms.