The decline in unionization has fed the rise in incomes at the top
Before anyone brings up the "I want to be paid for my skill, not my seniority," I'd just like to point out:If you formed a union at your workplace, you and your colleagues would get to decide the rules like that.And a few other things I think are worth saying...A union is a legal framework for the employees (who have no ownership stake in the business, despite putting their time and energy into the business day after day) to recast some of the power imbalance in their favor; since many of us here are employees, and not owners, we should be looking out for our interests.Aaand...a union isn't a "let's all be lazy and wreck businesses" framework; that's a bit of nonsensical propaganda that we've all swum in for the last few decades.