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04 Dec 2015 2 Comments
in labour economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, unions Tags: union membership, union power
Union membership was in a long-term decline in New Zealand before the passage of the hated Employment Contracts Act in 1991. If anything, union membership stopped falling after the passage of that law.
Source: OECD Stat.
As for the other countries, steady decline in membership has been the trend since 1980. The already low level of union membership in the USA has been in a steady decline since at least 1960.
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Dec 07, 2015 @ 10:00:01
The graph here is misleading (that’s a charitable description) and the commentary is simply wrong. I’m sure this post is well-intentioned, but the dominant narrative really needs to be challenged. If anyone wants to know the true situation (with full references) I’d refer them to http://unionwiki.net. The best short summary I can give is this… Starting to count from 1960 is methodologically flawed, for a whole raft of reasons. Worse, it allows the data from a few rich countries to skew the picture. Union membership has been growing in (by far) the majority of countries since 2000. The real issue is not union decline; it is industrial unionism’s struggle in post-industrial conditions. Happy to have this debate in more detail if anyone cares to look beyond the constructed fiction.
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Oct 27, 2016 @ 09:59:11
The data starts in 1960 because data prior to then is not available. Union membership is not rising.
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