Boston University: With a String of Big-Win Labor Victories, Are Unions Surging Back?
November 08, 2023
November 08, 2023
BOSTON, Massachusetts, Nov. 8 -- Boston University issued the following news:
By Rich Barlow
Shrunk to 7 percent of the private US workforce from the one third they organized in their 1950s heyday, unions have been on the ropes dating back at least to 1981, when President Ronald Reagan shut down a strike by air traffic controllers. Yet workers are enjoying a year of victories that would have cheered Abraham Lincoln, who once praised "a system of labor where the lab . . .
By Rich Barlow
Shrunk to 7 percent of the private US workforce from the one third they organized in their 1950s heyday, unions have been on the ropes dating back at least to 1981, when President Ronald Reagan shut down a strike by air traffic controllers. Yet workers are enjoying a year of victories that would have cheered Abraham Lincoln, who once praised "a system of labor where the lab . . .