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 Corporate America's War on Unions
Quote: Corporate America's War on Unions
By Paul Krugman, The New York Times. Posted December 27, 2007.
The U.S. labor movement isn't dying a natural death: corporations and politicians are helping.
Once upon a time, back when America had a strong middle class, it also had a strong union movement.
These two facts were connected. Unions negotiated good wages and benefits for their workers, gains that often ended up being matched even by nonunion employers. They also provided an important counterbalance to the political influence of corporations and the economic elite.
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