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Alexandra Bruce
June 13, 2011
Elaine Bernard, of the Harvard Trade Union Program, discusses the U.S. legal system in the United States and major obstacles to worker organizing.
After World War II, union power in America continued to grow until the mid-’50s. Since then the proportion of the union workforce has decreased.
As of 2008 only 12 percent of U.S. workers were in a union. It’s not that people decided to quit unions. Manufacturing declined and couldn’t move into the service and retail sectors.
