It's something many people don't understand. A recent Gallup poll showed
Americans clearly believe unions mostly benefit workers who are members of unions, and mostly harm workers who are not union members...Hoffa points out that good jobs create more good jobs.
Labor unions raise workers' wages, give them a voice on the job and protect them from financial and medical insecurity. They help turn a job into a good job. Good jobs create more jobs. Well-paid, secure workers spend money in their communities. They support local businesses, which can then grow and hire more workers.One of the reasons the U.S. economy created zero jobs in the past month is the severe cuts to state budgets, which resulted in 340,000 jobs lost in the past year. Writes Hoffa,
Good government jobs do exactly what good union jobs do - they stimulate the economy. It is nonsense to suggest they don't. The current willingness to sacrifice government jobs at the state and federal level is, I'm afraid, a failure to learn from the lessons of the past.That's why, Hoffa says, we need stimulus right now, not austerity. Read the whole thing here.
