Donald Trump isn’t the first GOP president to have courted segments of the labor movement, dividing a key Democratic constituency, only to take actions that make unions weaker.
- Professor of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis
Restoring the defined-benefit pension plan the workers gave up in 2013 was a rallying cry. But the union didn’t get it back even though it did win a significant pay increase.
Because the economy gained 3 million jobs in 2023, unions had to draw hundreds of thousands of new members just to hold their ground.
The ranks of labor unions have been decimated over the last half century by outsourcing and anti-union campaigns. The result has been rising inequality.
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