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the split in the AFL-CIO shows that the trend has continued and that unions do not have anything like the strength they once commanded.
If there is an irony it is that the group that chants unity among the workers cannot hold itself together either.
The problem of course is that unions became big business of themselves -- the very thing that they supposedly fought. They becamse strictly interested in dues and who paid them. I personally think it is the result of a population that is more independant and less likely to stay at a job for an entire career --even one that pays well.
If there is an irony it is that the group that chants unity among the workers cannot hold itself together either.
The problem of course is that unions became big business of themselves -- the very thing that they supposedly fought. They becamse strictly interested in dues and who paid them. I personally think it is the result of a population that is more independant and less likely to stay at a job for an entire career --even one that pays well.
