Big Labor's Decline Explained
The decline of the Big Labor movement has been evident in all sectors across America. See this report from the Heartland Institute.
Is the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the 1935 law designed to protect and invigorate the labor movement, responsible for the past 50 years of the movement's decline?
Michael Wachter, the William B. Johnson Professor of Law and Economics and co-director of the Institute for Law and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, believes the answer is yes. He also says the decline of unions has gone hand-in-hand with the waning of what he calls a "corporatist" economy and the corresponding rise of the free economy.
Wachter's theory flies in the face of the common belief that unions have dwindled because of better educated and more independent employees, a society more sensitive to employer abuses, management hostility to unions, and increased government protections.
With the current push from the left, driven by what remains of a large union-network, workers freedom is at risk once again. We cannot and must not allow our politicians to be pawns in a union-bosses chess game - the stakes are far too high.
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