That’s not exactly surprising, given that it was in the '70s that unions began their precipitous decline - a decline, by the way, that neatly mirrors the rise of income inequality in the US (i.e. the collapse of the middle class). So yeah, weakened and non-existent unions couldn’t do much for people. (Except in the public sector where unions - and wages - have remained strong while unionless private sector equivalents saw wages stagnate and decline.)
It simply raises the question, in whose interests was it to portray unions as corrupt (far, far in excess of any reality)? To deny the role of corporate interests in the decline of unions is to totally ignore their long history of overt - and often illegal - efforts to break unions by any means.
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