Labour Day Gives US Workers Little to Celebrate. The Derogation of Labor Rights

‘As Americans celebrate Labor Day, expect little meaningful talk about labor itself. Or about the great equalizer in the everyday engagement of labor and capital: the union movement — and its decades-long decline.
And yet, for a great portion of the American populace, that decline has already had a profound impact on their quality of life.
This spring, researchers at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) reported that in the last two years, 2014-2015, union participation dropped to a little more than 11% of the US workforce. That’s down dramatically from more than one in three workers who were represented in 1945.’
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