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With employees at Apple, Amazon and even Starbucks organizing, it feels like unions are entering a new era of momentum. But when you look at the numbers, are unions really rebounding from decades of decline?
Today on the show, learn about the intertwined forces that push and pull union trends.
Further reading:
Bureau of Labor Statistics – 2021 Union Members
Gallup opinion poll on trade unions
David Lee and Alexandre Mas – Long-term impacts of unions on firms: new data from financial markets, 1961-1999.
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