Under Attack, Workers Still Say Union Yes

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

The latest government statistics on union membership and job trends paint a decidedly mixed picture for American workers and the labor movement. Last year, more than 20,000 workers were fired or discriminated against in the U.S. for union activities, according to the NLRB’s recently-released annual report. Another 50,000 state government workers in Indiana and Missouri lost their collective bargaining rights when the Republican governors in those states signed executive orders stripping workers of those rights. Despite these attacks, 42 million workers say they would vote for a union tomorrow if they had the chance. - reported by Ray McInerney