A tried and true way to fix inequality in America:unions

  • 📰 CNN
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 24 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 13%
  • Publisher: 95%

Education Education Headlines News

Education Education Latest News,Education Education Headlines

Corporate efforts to gut unions — like a recent attempt by Delta to persuade workers not to unionize — has led to their decline, fueling income inequality, stalled wage growth, and economic mobility, writes Steven Greenhouse for CNNOpinion

Steven Greenhouse was a New York Times reporter for 31 years and is author of Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor, to be published by Knopf this August. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely his own. Read more opinion articles at CNN.

While union leaders say these posters insult workers' intelligence, there is no denying that Delta has had considerable success beating back unionization. Delta is the least unionized major US carrier, and thanks to its aggressive anti-union campaigns, organizing drives by the flight attendants' union were defeated in 2002, 2008 and 2010. Delta's flight attendants narrowly rejected unionizing in 2010, with 9,216 voting for and 9,544 against.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

Opinion union seiu668

Opinion Unions do nothing but allow nonproductive layabouts to make the same pay as productive hard working employees. We now have union States and right to work States time will show what system is better. Competition is always best, winner take all.

Opinion Sir Thomas More's 'Utopia', meaning 'no such place', mythologically solved income inequality. We are created equal as humans with inalienable rights to life, liberty property. We are not created equal in mental, emotional, physical powers. The end result is no Utopia is possible.

Opinion lol look at all the people with no skills and no ambition demanding others with skills and ambition pay them to sit around and eat cheese doodles and play xbox all day

Opinion Unions became just another corporation.

Opinion Name one job a union created

Opinion Jeez. actually thought I saw: Corporate efforts to 'cut onions'. Scary eyesight nowadays.

Opinion Right before Delta merged with Northwest airlines, Northwest managed to bust the mechanic/cleaner union, screwing many long time employees out of pensions and cutting their pay.

Opinion What is the Delta’s CEO’s income spread to workers’ salaries?

Opinion Only the growth and availability of unions will help level income inequality and workers need to act firmly and in unison to fight for unions. It’s how we developed a middle class in the first place and killing unions almost killed the middle class.

Opinion You and you alone are responsible for your station in life.

Opinion The sign she is holding looks like something a young child would make. She can't be too smart.

Opinion Lol that is false

Opinion Get a new job. Start a business. You are not trapped.

Opinion more like a tried and true way to bankrupt industries and make america uncompetitive globally. Employers are should be free to offer a job to any citizen they would like for any pay they see fit, it is up to the citizen to decide if the compensation is right for them.

Opinion Pair this with what Trumps said yesterday about immigration. He advocates bringing in highly educated and skilled workers to take top jobs and displace American workers. What about education and jobs training so Americans can rise?

Opinion But more profit, right, because NOTHING is more important than profit.

Opinion

Opinion Want more money? Better yourself and earn it, don't demand it from others

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 4. in EDUCATİON

Education Education Latest News, Education Education Headlines