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Originally Posted by whell
It may be. However, its pretty clear that unions have become less relevant to workers in the 21st century than they were in the 20th century. This ruling may provide the needed impetus for union leadership to figure out a way to make unions relevant to workers again. I suspect they'll need to do that if they hope to survive.
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This will probably be futile in that private sector union participation is currently at ~7% and union bosses have been relying upon public sector unions to keep them afloat for years because of paltry union representation in the private sector. For example, union participation in the historically union-heavy construction industry is now down to 14%.