Sally Kohn: One smear on union reputation is corruption. Federal prosecutors are charging local united auto workers u a w official with stealing couple million dollars and union money, assorted other wrong doing. The new administration has put in all kinds of new controls to restore the trust and confidence of the members - that's really what's important.
Organized labor hasn’t had this much public support in 50 years, and yet the percentage of Americans in a union is near a record low. A.F.L-C.I.O. president Liz Shuler tries to explain this gap — and persuade Stephen Dubner that “the folks who brought you the weekend” still have the leverage to fix a broken economy.