Globalization Globalization Economic globalization may well be the defining issue for the rest of our new century. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. Everyone who works has the right to just and favorable renumeration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests. Of course, the United States does not adhere to many of these basic principles, the most significant being the right to form and to join trade unions.
Labor laws are so weak in the U.S. that employers can easily block attempts to form unions.
As a result, union membership has been in decline in the U.S. for decades.