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The Treasury Department has released a comprehensive report on the role of labor unions in the American economy, as part of the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment led by Vice President Harris. The report highlights that unions help address middle-class challenges like stagnant wages, high housing costs, and reduced mobility, contributing to a stronger economy. Key findings include unions raising member wages by 10-15%, improving workplace benefits, and fostering civic engagement. Unions also reduce wage gaps and promote economic growth by reducing inequality. The Biden-Harris Administration supports unions and plans to advance their role through various actions, including passing the PRO Act and expanding the National Labor Relations Board’s funding and enforcement activities.

  • Changetheview@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s so obvious that the imbalance of power in employment is causing all sorts of issues. Greed has swept across corporate leadership, through executives, board members, and investors. Throw in low income tax rates for these high earners, and what do you know… they continue to eat up every penny they can gobble down. Making low/middle class suffer tremendously just to sit on a bigger pile of goal. Greed. Sociopathic greed in many cases.

    Collective bargaining doesn’t just help workplace behavior or give a little bump in wages. It helps balance the power between labor and capital owners with little to no regard for the actual wellbeing of their workers.

    And it’s crucial at this time of growing wealth inequality, low/middle class stagnant income growth, and a host of shitty behavior that’s become customary for employers (abuse employees to drive quarterly figures up and keep the investors happy).

    Join a union. Make a union. Talk about earnings with coworkers. Take a stand against shitty treatment. We can create a better life for the workers of the world. We just have to do it together.