Biden’s best efforts could not keep unions from declining or defecting to GOP
Washington Examiner cited CEI’s expert on Biden’s efforts on unionization
Sean Higgins, a labor researcher at the libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute, attributed the phenomenon less to people leaving unions and more to broader shifts in the economy away from heavily unionized industries.
Most important has been the trend away from manufacturing and toward new service-sector jobs that are not unionized. For instance, rideshare drivers for Uber or Lyft are not union members — nor do they even work for those companies.
“It’s not so much that the workers are sort of being shut down or laid off, that does happen, but it’s just simply the fact that as the economy grows that unionization doesn’t grow with it,” Higgins said.
“They don’t really know how to organize these new sorts of emerging economies,” he added.
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