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The number of union members nationwide increased from 2016 to 2017, and some states saw union growth for the first time in several years or decades. [196] Nearly half a million workers went on strike in 2018 and 2019, the largest numbers in three decades. [197] Union growth in 2017 was primarily millennial workers.
The CIO itself was slower to join the purge. Persons associated with the CP did, in fact, exercise a good deal of influence in a number of CIO unions in the 1940s, both in the leadership of unions such as the ILWU, UE, Transport Workers Union of America and Fur and Leather Workers and in staff positions in a number of other unions. Those ...
The Communist Party USA and its allies played an important role in the United States labor movement, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s, but wasn't successful either in bringing the labor movement around to its agenda of fighting for socialism and full workers' control over industry, or in converting their influence in any particular union ...
At the apex of union density in the 1940s, only about 9.8% of public employees were represented by unions, while 33.9% of private, non-agricultural workers had such representation. In this decade, those proportions have essentially reversed, with 36% of public workers being represented by unions while private sector union density had plummeted ...
In neighboring Canada, where the structure of the economy and pro or anti-union sentiment among workers is very similar, unionization was steadier. From 1970 to 2003, union density in the US declined from 23.5 percent to 12.4 percent, while in Canada the loss was much smaller, going from 31.6 percent in 1970 to 28.4 percent in 2003. [57]
When the Soviet Union led an invasion of Hungary in 1956, half of the members of communist parties around the world quit and in the United States half did and many joined the Socialist Party. Frank Zeidler was an American socialist politician and mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin , serving three terms from April 20, 1948, to April 18, 1960.
From 1983 to 2015, union rolls shrank by nearly 3 million workers even as over 45 million more people joined the workforce, and the proportion of workers in a union was cut in half over that same ...
Apex Hosiery Co. v. Leader, 310 U.S. 469 (1940) United States v. Hutcheson, 312 US 219 (1941) National Industrial Recovery Act 1933, declared unconstitutional; National Labor Relations Act of 1935; National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, 301 U.S. 1 (1937) declaring the NLRA 1935 to be constitutional; Hague v.