Assistant Editor Sara Rimensnyder interviewed him by phone in October. Since 1970, private sector unions have lost almost 50 percent of their membership. It s baloney to attribute this to employer opposition. Employer opposition only has one application, in organizing the unorganized. Many people mix up the loss of unionism in existing labor-management relationships and efforts by unions to organize the unorganized.
People never discuss employee opposition to unionism.
He found that 65 percent of nonunion workers said they would not vote for a union in a secret ballot. The top reason was that the workers felt the unions had become irrelevant. They felt they didn t need a union to solve their problems. That was a kick in the solar plexus from the standpoint of the unions. And that was 84.