The State of the Unions: Alive, Fighting and With Problems

To listen to some of our doomsters who write on the American labor movement, it is in a bad fix; if not quite at death’s door, its condition is critical. Even serious journalists such as A. H. Raskin hold these pessimistic views. Raskin, writing last fall in the New York City newspaper-strike paper City News, summarized matters as follows:

The number of union dues-payers keeps going down while the number of jobholders goes up. Unions lose more...