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The American Secular Union published over a dozen pamphlets on topics regarding separation of church and state between 1886 and 1928. [5] Following Ingersoll's death in 1899 various leadership changes occurred. The organization withered around 1919. [1]
As a result, the American Plan drove down union membership by at least 25% between 1921 and 1923. [2] From companies' participation in the American Plan, as well as anti-union decisions from the Supreme Court of the United States, union membership fell from 5.1 million in 1920 to 3.6 million in 1929. In the 1930s, successful organizing drives ...
The average first-year raise (for 1000-plus–worker contracts) fell from 9.8 percent to 1.2 percent; in manufacturing, raises fell from 7.2 percent to negative 1.2 percent. Salaries of unionized workers also fell relative to non-union workers. Women and blacks suffered more from these trends. [191] [192] Union cash advantage 2014 [193]
Communications Workers of America v. Beck, 487 U.S. 735 (1988), is a decision by the United States Supreme Court which held that, in a union security agreement, unions are authorized by statute to collect from non-members only those fees and dues necessary to perform its duties as a collective bargaining representative. [1]
The EPI report found that in 2017 nearly half (48%) of all non-union workers in the U.S. would like to unionize. Public support for unions has only increased since 2017.
Spying by companies on union activities has been illegal in the United States since the National Labor Relations Act of 1935. However, non-union monitoring of employee activities while at work is perfectly legal and, according to the American Management Association, nearly 80% of major US companies actively monitor their employees. [1] [2]
Although wages for workers in trade unions are higher than non-union workers, the gap decreased in the late 20th and early 21st Century. [6] This gap decrease could be due to the diminishing ability for unions to get monopoly rents, hence the rents affected by technology, competition from overseas, and deregulation of different firms/workplaces.
It would have reduced benefits for upper-income workers while raising them for those with lifetime earnings averaging less than $11,000 a year. Republicans rejected the tax increases and Democrats rejected benefit cuts. A powerful network of elderly and liberal organizations and union workers also fought any changes. [67