Unions

Maybe the middle and low income Americans are waking up. They are beginning to take action to join forces. Worker organizing at Starbucks is on fire. What started with one store in Buffalo has swiftly spread to other locations across the country. This goes along with a recent vote by Amazon employees in New York to unionize. Inflation is adding pressure to get wages up and unions can help. Perhaps this is the turning point in closing the wage gap. Private union membership has fallen from 20% in 1980 to 6% today. Public union membership is 35%.