After decades of losing ground to corporate cost-cutting and globalization, labor unions face their biggest opportunity in years to forge a comeback. It...
Picket lines across the U.S. swelled in recent weeks as thousands of members of the United Auto Workers walked off the job in a historic strike that simultaneously targeted the Big Three Detroit auto makers.
White, a longtime telecommunications specialist for AT&T, is among a range of workers closely watching the recent showdowns between labor and business in the belief that what affects one union affects them all. The outcomes will help determine the success or failure of future bargaining and mobilization efforts. But while worker activism may increase, efforts to modernize unions for the 21st century still face an uphill climb.
“The income inequality has gotten to a breaking point,” D. Taylor, international president of Unite Here, which primarily represents workers in hotels and other hospitality sectors, tells Barron’s. “Nobody expects Corporate America to come to their rescue, and nor do they expect the government—so they’re looking around for what institution can actually truly help them, and I think that’s where the labor movement should and needs to be.
“When we go through a period like this, there is an imitation, or contagion, effect,” says MIT’s Kochan. “Is it death by a thousand cuts? I don’t know, but to be able to cause some pain to each company—which has never been done…that’s a beautiful thing,” UAW regional director David Green tells Barron’s. “The UAW, as an organization, has been reactive to everything in my lifetime. Now, we’re proactive for the first time.”
Uphill Battle The recent momentum for organized labor arguably started in 2018 with a West Virginia teachers’ strike, which resulted in 5% wage gains and spawned copycat walkouts that raised educator pay in Arizona and Oklahoma. Since then, there has been an uptick in union activity. There were 2,510 union representation petitions filed at the National Labor Relations Board, or NLRB, for fiscal-year 2022, up from 1,597 filed in 2018.
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