{"id":788262,"date":"2022-09-05T05:51:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T05:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=254198"},"modified":"2022-09-05T05:51:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T05:51:24","slug":"labor-day-unions-have-a-stake-in-ending-minority-rule-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/09\/05\/labor-day-unions-have-a-stake-in-ending-minority-rule-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Day: Unions Have a Stake in Ending Minority Rule in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, just 10.3 percent of American workers were members of unions, less than half the proportion we had four decades prior. This collapse in union membership didn\u2019t happen in Canada; it happened in the United States, for a number of reasons that were specific to this country, including unpleasant changes in labor law and  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/05\/labor-day-unions-have-a-stake-in-ending-minority-rule-in-the-united-states\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/05\/labor-day-unions-have-a-stake-in-ending-minority-rule-in-the-united-states\/\">Labor Day: Unions Have a Stake in Ending Minority Rule in the United States<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/05\/labor-day-unions-have-a-stake-in-ending-minority-rule-in-the-united-states\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, just 10.3 percent of American workers were members of unions, less than half the proportion we had four decades prior. This collapse in union membership didn\u2019t happen in Canada; it happened in the United States, for a number of reasons that we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788263,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788262\/revisions\/788263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}