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Most US adults say decline in union membership bad for the country: Pew
The Hill ^ | 03/13/2024 | LAUREN SFORZA

Posted on 03/13/2024 12:58:22 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

A majority of adults in the United States said the decline in union membership is bad for the country, according to a survey conducted earlier this year.

The Pew Research Center poll found that 54 percent of surveyed U.S. adults believe the decline in union membership is bad for the country. Another 59 percent said that the decline is bad for working people, the survey found.

Union membership has been decreasing in the U.S. in recent years. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the union membership rate at 10 percent in 2023, which is slightly down from 10.1 percent in 2022. Pew noted that union membership has dropped significantly since 1983, when about 20.1 percent of American workers were in a union.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adults; membership; union; us
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Where is sally field with her union sign? (S)
1 posted on 03/13/2024 12:58:22 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Actually the opposite.


2 posted on 03/13/2024 1:02:10 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Despite LAUREN SFORZA, The Hill, and the Delusional Lying Left, unions are economy killers and very bad for the country.


3 posted on 03/13/2024 1:02:20 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

BULLS***!!!! Most Americans are friggin’ morons, then.


4 posted on 03/13/2024 1:04:30 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: Jim W N

Public sec unions are a whole thing


5 posted on 03/13/2024 1:06:04 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Here she is from 1979. It's almost as if this movie did the exact opposite of what its creators had hoped.


6 posted on 03/13/2024 1:06:31 PM PDT by xp38
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Unions are evil. I dealt with union workers working one summer during college at Whirlpool.

Sabotage, drinking on the job, drug selling, disappearing from the line, constantly filing grievances, etc.

And they were stupid , low IQ trash.


7 posted on 03/13/2024 1:08:09 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No they don’t. The unions are so powerful they can put out a bs statement like this.


8 posted on 03/13/2024 1:09:27 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Chickensoup

And public sector unions should be prohibited.


9 posted on 03/13/2024 1:10:10 PM PDT by curious7
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Private sector unions are dead. Only 6% of US workers are in a union now. In the 1950’s it was well over 25%.


10 posted on 03/13/2024 1:10:23 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ain’t buyong


11 posted on 03/13/2024 1:10:29 PM PDT by yldstrk
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Loaded question.

How many of the respondents were actually members of unions?


12 posted on 03/13/2024 1:16:55 PM PDT by Fido969 (P to )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Most union members today are getting a government paycheck. It’s a very,very,*very* bad idea for *any* government employees to be union members.


13 posted on 03/13/2024 1:17:40 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Did they ask the illegals just pining for their green cards?

Because they will work for a ton less money than those pesky union guys.


14 posted on 03/13/2024 1:17:58 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: rktman

That’s may be what they think, but we are no longer living in Victorian era company towns with limited employment opportunities. Nowadays, unions can wreck an economy if they get too powerful in relation to employers, as they — and the socialist politicians helping them — continually make it harder for businesses to make money. That’s what happened between the Great Depression and the election of President Reagan.


15 posted on 03/13/2024 1:18:45 PM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: rktman

A Pew poll of “adults” so you know it is BS


16 posted on 03/13/2024 1:19:14 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I was Teamster for 35 years, never missed paying a due. I called on the union one time, when we went on strike in 1997. After spending millions of union dues and untold man hours getting Slick Clinton elected, our union strike pay was $56/ week. We were starved out in three weeks and went back under management terms. Screw the unions!


17 posted on 03/13/2024 1:19:51 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I call bull malarkey.


18 posted on 03/13/2024 1:20:04 PM PDT by Allegra (Does this tagline make my brain look smaller? Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Русские свиньи, идите домой! Derp)
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To: rktman

A Pew poll of “adults” so you know it is BS


19 posted on 03/13/2024 1:20:38 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: central_va

I know a collective bargaining attorney. He used to have a lot of business. “Used to” is the operative phrase.


20 posted on 03/13/2024 1:21:14 PM PDT by packagingguy
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