Yeah, it’s totally bizarre because it’s also pretty obvious how the middle class has been damaged in the absence of unions, unions have been blamed for the collapse of industries even when that’s obviously not the case (e.g. the auto industry, where we can compare the US to, say, Germany, where they make twice as many cars and pay their workers twice as much). Instead people just get angry at the non-stagnant wages of public employees and their unions. Weirdest to me are those who talk about how unions (and regulations) are making the US unable to compete with countries like… China. (Yes, if only we, too, could pay slave wages, allow wanton dumping of pollutants such that the air is unbreathable, the water undrinkable and there are regular unnatural disasters caused by flagrant abuses of companies, we’d be in much better shape.) It indicates to me that people have totally, uncritically bought the corporate line.
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