Topic > Private Sector Unions - 960

Over the past half century, private sector unions have been significantly diminished by market forces and political instability, but they continue to hold an important place in society for the grassroots. In Do Workers Still Want Unions, Richard Freeman demonstrates that private sector unions continue to have a place in society through a highly analytical understanding of workers' wants and needs. He demonstrates this by comparing surveys conducted in 2005 to the 1990s. It goes on to say that 90% of unionized workers said they would choose to unionize again if given the chance. Additionally, 32% of non-union workers said they would vote for a union in the election. If these workers were allowed to have a say in whether or not to join a union, 44% of workplaces could be unionized. The private sector union membership rate is much lower than that of the public sector. The private sector is at an all-time low of 6.6%, while public take-up is also low but at 35.9%. This can lead to non-member private sector unions having more unsafe work environments and low wage growth. If they don't gain membership, there will most likely be no private sector unions left, although they can still be used to gain advantage. In Richard Freeman's book, Do Workers Still Want Unions? He draws fairly liberal conclusions from his research. Compare what U.S. workers said about both private-sector and public-sector unions. He believes that if more workers are in and for unions than have a say in them, and have more say, then they can help improve the workplace. He argues that people in the workforce today want to have as much, or more, say in their workplaces as they wanted in... middle of paper...d States can bring the class back media and stop the gap between them and the 1% getting ever wider. If that happened, then New York City could be a great place to work for all people. Not just Wall Street or similar jobs. It would be important for the American public to support these unions so that more jobs can be created and more people will return to work. Even though more jobs have been created in the last two years, union membership has declined significantly. If both of these numbers increased together, we could return to the New York City bombing market ways of the 1930s and 1940s. None of the studies I have read say that laws have been enacted to bring these unions back to the way they were. If they end up making laws, it could help these unions out of the dead. This could bring back the strong middle class it had before the stock market crash.