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Very interesting and informative time-line:

Short-termism led the Democratic Party to let unions die, and now they've lost their base

To explain the vulnerability of the US union movement you need to go further back. An extremely abbreviated and approximate history: Late 19th century: as with most other places, a vigorous union movement being strongly opposed by capital. One underappreciated factor is that the famous anti-trust laws of this “trust-busting” era were also used against unions; some would argue that this was their primary effect. Pre-WWI twentieth century: The rise of the Wobblies, the killing of Joe Hill, t…