365 | Michael Lind: How the Suppression of Wages is Destroying America
The Realignment
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The Importance of Negotiation in the Workplace
In the private sector, union membership has collapsed from about a third in the middle of the 20th century to 6%. The average high school educated wage earner works for some national or multinational corporation that has 500 or 1,000 or 10,000 employees. If you're a janitor and you want a job with Microsoft or IBM, to say as libertarians do that this is a negotiation where both sides are benefiting isn't absurd.
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