There has been no assault on unions.. in the private sector, they bankrupted every domestic industry where they predominated. That is what caused their membership rates to decline.
In the one sector where expenses are socialized, and thus which doesn't go bankrupt easily, they have gotten increasingly powerful.
Government social welfare spending has rapidly grown, at the behest of public sector unions who increasingly control the political system:
In California, emergency workers can retire at 55 with 90% of their pension, that averages $108,000 per year.
California now has $1 trillion in pension obligations for its unionized public sector workers.
>>But you think that the fascists should have money thrown at them because they're more violent than the rest of us?
They're not fascists. But many will join fascist movements, like the Jan 6th groups, if they see their economic interests threatened, just as many public sector union members will join insurrectionist socialist/communist movements, if their rent-seeking institutions are dismantled.
>>After the civil war America rebuilt itself into the world's richest and most powerful country.
The US was already on its way to becoming the richest and most powerful country in the world in the early 19th century. That outcome was predicted by British thinkers since long before the Civil War.
The Civil War was massively destructive, both in terms of economic resources, and human lives - in killing 600,000 people, and later US economic growth was despite of it, not because of it.
In the one sector where expenses are socialized, and thus which doesn't go bankrupt easily, they have gotten increasingly powerful.
Government social welfare spending has rapidly grown, at the behest of public sector unions who increasingly control the political system:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/social-spending-oecd-long...
A couple anecdotes illuminates the kind of power these unions wield:
New York has nearly 300,000 unionized public sector employees receiving over $100,000 a year:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2020/05/26/why...
In California, emergency workers can retire at 55 with 90% of their pension, that averages $108,000 per year.
California now has $1 trillion in pension obligations for its unionized public sector workers.
>>But you think that the fascists should have money thrown at them because they're more violent than the rest of us?
They're not fascists. But many will join fascist movements, like the Jan 6th groups, if they see their economic interests threatened, just as many public sector union members will join insurrectionist socialist/communist movements, if their rent-seeking institutions are dismantled.
>>After the civil war America rebuilt itself into the world's richest and most powerful country.
The US was already on its way to becoming the richest and most powerful country in the world in the early 19th century. That outcome was predicted by British thinkers since long before the Civil War.
The Civil War was massively destructive, both in terms of economic resources, and human lives - in killing 600,000 people, and later US economic growth was despite of it, not because of it.