Check out this chart, then act. Eric
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From: Eve Tahmincioglu, Economic Policy Institute <newsletter@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 5, 2021 10:57 AM
To: ericprussell@xxxxxxxxxxx <ericprussell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Chart of the Week: This is the result of 40 years of attacks on unions
The decline in unions has exponentially increased income inequality.
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Eric,
Next week, the House of Representatives is expected to vote on the PRO Act,
which would strengthen workers’ rights to come together in union. Over the last
40 years, unions have been under attack, which has resulted in an increase in
income inequality as more and more income goes to the top 1%.
Take a look at this EPI
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which shows the dramatic correlation between the decline of unions and the
accelerating income inequality in the United States.
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The launch of these destabilizing trends can be traced back to the early 1980s
with failed Reaganomics theories and "trickle down" economics. Each decade
since, the rich have gotten richer and the middle class has continued to
collapse.
Now, we have an opportunity to reverse these trends. President Biden, this
week, issued a strong statement in support of workers' ability to unionize and
speaking about how "unions put power in the hands of workers."
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Thwarting union representation has been a primary goal of corporate interests
in recent decades, and these interests have convinced conservative policymakers
to attack collective bargaining through legislation, executive rulemaking, and
the courts. Meanwhile, lawmakers who often claim to care about the economic
struggles of working people have much too often turned a blind eye to these
attacks.
If workers are not able to effectively organize into unions, broadly shared
prosperity that extends to most working people has virtually no chance. We need
fundamental reform of labor law to restore workers’ rights to a union and
collective bargaining.
If you haven’t already, write to your members of Congress and urge them to vote
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Thank you for all you do to fight for an economy that works for all of us, not
just the wealthy few.
Thank you,
Eve Tahmincioglu
Director of Communications, Economic Policy Institute
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