I don't think they are god like. They just represent the workers and negotiate better contract terms.
let's see here...
they created the middle class, they improved working conditions, and raised salaries for the middle class they created.
despite unions being relatively small, you have attributed all that to them... it's your claim they alone caused all that to happen.
but somehow, they aren't godlike.:lol:
it's ok man, someone has to be a union propaganda mouthpiece... it's your turn today.
hell, look at your cool chart again.... the nice little squiggly line that supposedly correlate.
a 20% drop in union membership correlates to a 7% drop in national income held by the middle class..uh huh... that math doesn't seem so bad if you don't look at the squiggly lines does it?
like magic, your graph makes 20% equal 7%
of course , you want me and others to believe that unions are the only factor in that 7% drop... unions, nothing else, no other factors in a world of factors.
the other 80% of the non union middle class, nah, they don't factor in at all.... nope, just the unions.
no mentions of globalization, increased immigration and it's direct force on wages and such, no mentioning of a growing middle class ( in shear numbers), no mentioning of the myth that the wealth in question isn't static ( upwardly mobile folks take their wealth with them)
nah, ta hell with all that, you felt like you could thrown some BS union propaganda and myths at me and i'd buy it like a good little follower. ...sorry man, not gonna happen.
the union membership declined, and yes, wages did too... but they do not correlate like that little lie of a chart presents... union membership dropped off at a faster pace than wages.. and it fell more than 200% further than wages.... it's a very very weak correlation, and even weaker causation argument.