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With the rate of unionization so low that even unionized employees have trouble winning good contracts, how can workers profit from the gains in their productivity?
Size-earnings differential may be due to the higher rate of unionization in large firms and unions' tendency to raise wages.
The higher the rate of unionization within an enterprise, and the more power unions gain, the more complex bargaining negotiations become, especially when there is a variety of unions (Craver 1997; Jackson and Schuler 1999).
Labor laws remain almost as repressive as they have been since the military smashed the labor unions after the 1980 coup d'état, requiring workers to register their wish to join a union with a notary public, with a resulting rate of unionization that remains well below 10 percent and workers left at the mercies of their employers.
To detect the rate of unionization, we collected data on the percentage of employees organized in unions from the 10-K filings (the same operationalization is used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics; Blanchflower 2007; Faber 2005).
This decline in industrial production adversely affected the rate of unionization, which drastically diminished over the years in the U.S.
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After all, the decline reflects the fact that unions are increasingly less popular; rates of unionization fell steadily from 14.3percentt among those aged 55 to 64, to 9.8percentt among those 25 to 34.
And our rates of unionization continue to fall.
And, even though US-born workers tend to join unions more often than foreign-born workers, in New York, the two groups are equal in their rates of unionization.
A sense of national solidarity, high rates of unionization, and a labor force that did not extend much beyond our borders anchored American business in America.
It is noteworthy that American workers in the airline and railway industries, which are governed not by the 1935 law but by a stronger statute, the Railway Labor Act, have much higher rates of unionization.
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