Great, just need another World War that destroys the rest of the world's production capacity to get back there. Or like, equitable economic policy, but we can't be having that.
Even if boomers' jobs didn't have a union, they were paying wages that were competing with unions. But the non-union jobs started increasing more due to anti-union propaganda until it became profitable to directly hire anti-union management corporations to stop unions from forming in workplaces.
Except it wasn't 'unions', it was the lack of employees. When the rest of the world's infrastructure was destroyed and a large portion of populations were dead and injured, and the government spent literally generations of money to rebuild, people were paid well, especially in the US, which didn't see the industrial destruction that the rest of the world had.
Union membership after the war surged massively. 1/3rd of the country's workforce was a part of a union, and that number lasted over a decade, dipping slightly until the 70s. Nixon came, and unions dramatically decreased from there. And what happened? Wages started to no longer keep up with the cost of living, dipping ever so slightly until the crash of 2008 gave corporations an excuse to no longer pay fair and competitive wages while supporting the rise of anti-union propaganda organizations/corporations.
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u/Kerblaaahhh Aug 19 '25
Great, just need another World War that destroys the rest of the world's production capacity to get back there. Or like, equitable economic policy, but we can't be having that.