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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•5 months agoThe discussion at hand is a bit more modern, Republicans abandoned unions shortly after the civil rights era.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish16•5 months agoIt mostly started with Reagan in the 80s and was continued by Clinton in the 90s. Both republicans and democrats abandoned unions almost in lock step.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•5 months agoDid they abandon unions because they stopped being effective political blocs?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•5 months agoThey abandoned unions because of their donors.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•5 months agoUnion membership was declining to the point where it probably wasn’t a thing worth politicians chasing. There’s a bunch of reasons for that decline, but they definitely weren’t the force they had been
Fox News is a hell of a drug.
The anti-union sentiment started well before then.
The discussion at hand is a bit more modern, Republicans abandoned unions shortly after the civil rights era.
It mostly started with Reagan in the 80s and was continued by Clinton in the 90s. Both republicans and democrats abandoned unions almost in lock step.
Did they abandon unions because they stopped being effective political blocs?
They abandoned unions because of their donors.
Union membership was declining to the point where it probably wasn’t a thing worth politicians chasing. There’s a bunch of reasons for that decline, but they definitely weren’t the force they had been