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In this short and accessible book, Len McCluskey, General Secretary of Unite the Union, presents the case for joining a trade union. Drawing on anecdotes from his own long involvement in unions, he looks at the history of trade unions, what they do and how they give a voice to working people, as democratic organisations. He considers the changing world of work, the challenges and opportunities of automation and why being trade unionists can enable us to help shape the future. He sets out why being a trade unionist is as much a political role as it is an industrial one and why the historic links between the labour movement and the Labour Party matter. Ultimately, McCluskey explains how being a trade unionist means putting equality at work and in society front and centre, fighting for an end to discrimination, and to inequality in wages and power.
In this new edition of Why Unions Matter, Michael D. Yates shows why unions still matter. Unions mean better pay, benefits, and working conditions for their members; they force employers to treat employees with dignity and respect; and at their best, they provide a way for workers to make society both more democratic and egalitarian. Yates uses simple language, clear data, and engaging examples to show why workers need unions, how unions are formed, how they operate, how collective bargaining works, the role of unions in politics, and what unions have done to bring workers together across the divides of race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation. The new edition not onlyupdates the first, but also examines the record of the New Voice slate that took control of the AFL-CIO in 1995, the continuing decline in union membership and density, the Change to Win split in 2005, the growing importance of immigrant workers, the rise of worker centers, the impacts of and labor responses to globalization, and the need for labor to have an independent political voice. This is simply the best introduction to unions on the market.
From workers' wages to presidential elections, labor unions once exerted tremendous clout in American life. In the immediate post-World War II era, one in three workers belonged to a union. The fraction now is close to one in five, and just one in ten in the private sector. The only thing big about Big Labor today is the scope of its problems. While many studies have explained the causes of this decline, What Unions No Longer Do shows the broad repercussions of labor's collapse for the American economy and polity. Organized labor was not just a minor player during the middle decades of the twentieth century, Jake Rosenfeld asserts. For generations it was the core institution fighting for economic and political equality in the United States. Unions leveraged their bargaining power to deliver benefits to workers while shaping cultural understandings of fairness in the workplace. What Unions No Longer Do details the consequences of labor's decline, including poorer working conditions, less economic assimilation for immigrants, and wage stagnation among African-Americans. In short, unions are no longer instrumental in combating inequality in our economy and our politics, resulting in a sharp decline in the prospects of American workers and their families.
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This essay sheds light on the top reasons why you should never join a labor union. Moreover, the advantages and disadvantages of being a unionized employee are elucidated in this essay. Moreover, how to make the money in order to afford to finance your future without joining a labor union is delineated in this essay. There are a myriad of reasons as to why you should completely desist from ever joining a labor union. First and foremost, the union initiation fee and monthly union dues can be exorbitant and will render your pittance of a wage even lower. Union dues can costs hundreds to thousands of dollars per year and will render your low, minimum wage that cannot even provide you with sustenance even more infinitesimal since you union dues are deducted from your paychecks. Moreover, your union dues will be earmarked towards paying for the amenities, benefits, pensions, and lofty salaries of labor union officials. Second, joining a labor union is of dire consequence since you will never qualify to receive a pension from the labor union. The union's pension funds you pay into without receiving a penny in return could instead actually be earmarked into funding your own retirement fund in the form of a traditional IRA. This way, when you reach the retirement age, you may have some semblance of passive income coming in from your investments if you stayed if you alternatively invested part of your paycheck into procuring income generating assets, such as bonds, index funds, and stocks with high dividend yields, instead of paying hefty monthly union dues to be a unionized employee. Third, if you join a labor union you will then consequently loose negotiating power with your employer at your job. Unionized workers not only comprise loosing the trust of their supervisors, but will also be perceived as being less collaborative than their non-unionized counterparts. Unionized employees will not be able to negotiate their own work schedule hours nor hourly wage, unlike their non-unionized coworker. The non-unionized employees do not already have union-negotiated pay and union-negotiated work hours already set forth which is why they may be able to possibly even better negotiate their compensation and work hours than unionized coworkers who are bound to the terms and conditions of the collective bargaining agreement. Fourth, the labor union can become defunct at any given moment and anything earned from being a unionized employee may no longer be provided by the defunct union. Additionally, the political climate is also not always favorable towards unions and can undermine the union's longevity, especially as the union faces declining membership rolls and is viewed in a negative light by most workforce participants. If you have been a unionized employee at your job for over twenty years and the union becomes defunct then you could no longer have access to unionized benefits, such as no longer having access to health insurance plan offered for unionized employee. Fifth, unionized employees are also viewed less favorably than non-unionized employees since employers are under the impression that the union is not looking out for their company's best interest. This stigmatized perception unionized employees succumb to also means that they are less apt to be promoted based on merit and are deemed less trustworthy than their non-unionized coworkers. This stigmatized perception unionized employees may encounter can render the work environment more insalubrious, hostile, and less cooperative. In spite of all the ample deterrents to join a labor union, there are some advantages appertaining to being a unionized employee. First and foremost, if you are a unionized employee with seniority than it can be far more arduous for you to be laid off or fired by your corporation even if you are incompetent and do not meet the company's standards. Moreover, companies cannot terminate their unionized employees for any discriminatory reasons, such as age.
Praise for previous editions of The State of Working America: "The State of Working America remains unrivaled as the most-trusted source for a comprehensive understanding of how working Americans and their families are faring in today's economy."--Robert B. Reich"It is the inequality of wealth, argue the authors, rather than new technology (as some would have it), that is responsible for the failure of America's workplace to keep pace with the country's economic growth. The State of Working America is a well-written, soundly argued, and important reference book."--Library Journal "If you want to know what happened to the economic well-being of the average American in the past decade or so, this is the book for you. It should be required reading for Americans of all political persuasions."--Richard Freeman, Harvard University "A truly comprehensive and useful book that provides a reality check on loose statements about U.S. labor markets. It should be cheered by all Americans who earn their living from work."--William Wolman, former chief economist, CNBC's Business Week "The State of Working America provides very valuable factual and analytic material on the economic conditions of American workers. It is the very best source of information on this important subject."--Ray Marshall, University of Texas, former U.S. Secretary of Labor"An indispensable work . . . on family income, wages, taxes, employment, and the distribution of wealth."--Simon Head, The New York Review of Books "No matter what political camp you're in, this is the single most valuable book I know of about the state of America, period. It is the most referenced, most influential resource book of its kind."--Jeff Madrick, author, The End of Affluence "This book is the single best yardstick for measuring whether or not our economic policies are doing enough to ensure that our economy can, once again, grow for everybody."--Richard A. Gephardt "The best place to review the latest developments in changes in the distribution of income and wealth."--Lester ThurowThe State of Working America, prepared biennially since 1988 by the Economic Policy Institute, includes a wide variety of data on family incomes, wages, taxes, unemployment, wealth, and poverty-data that enable the authors to closely examine the effect of the economy on the living standards of the American people.