Question

What do you know about Labor Unions and worker strikes today? What is similar and/or different?

Answer 1

before big

now smaller

before more industrial/factory/manufacturing

now many are for service type jobs like nursing

other countries employees are assumed to be a part of union and if they have to prove to that are not part of union if they dont want to be

in the US employees are assumed to not be part of a union and they have to prove to that are part of a union if they want to be

1980s president reagan hurt unions big way by destroying the air traffic controllers union (patco) because they went on strike in the name of national security, even though that union & other unions had supported him in the 1980 election