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As I've written many times about the young generation pushing and promoting "change".
They are re-learning what people in the 19th and 20th Century learned. They are fast understanding the value premise and beneficial principles of "Unionization".
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Support for labor unions among college graduates has increased from 55% in the late 1990s to around 70% in the last few years, and is even higher among younger college graduates, according to data provided by Gallup.
“I think a union was really kind of my only option to make this a viable choice for myself and other people,” said Mulholland, 32, who helped lead the campaign to unionize his New York City REI store in March. Shiflett and Alanna have also been active in the campaigns to unionize their workplaces.
And those efforts, in turn, may help explain an upsurge for organized labor, with filings for union elections up more than 50% over a similar period one year ago.
Though a minority at most nonprofessional workplaces, college-educated workers are playing a key role in propelling them toward unionization, experts say, because the college-educated often feel empowered in ways that others do not.
“There’s a class confidence, I would call it,” said Ruth Milkman, a sociologist of labor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. “A broader worldview that encompasses more than getting through the day.”
While other workers at companies like Starbucks and Amazon are also supportive of unions and sometimes take the initiative in forming them, the presence of the college-educated in these jobs means there is a “layer of people who particularly have their antennae up,” Milkman said. “There is an additional layer of leadership.”
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They will make Union's work they way they should work, they are more educated than people in the 19th and 20th Century, where the average Union worker had a High School Diploma and some had even less for certain jobs under the Union shop. They relied on more poorly educated people as shop stewards, who did not have the educational background to engage the level of critical thinking that was necessary during those periods, and by the time people were misled to abandon Union's the Union Shop did not have the talent in the shop steward roles to deal with the University Educated types in the management and executive sector or in the general work place.
NOW, a new dynamics is involved in what makes up Union Leadership from the top down to the shop stewards. This younger generation are more willing to speak up and build consensus.
they not only will restore benefits the previous generation gave away, they will regain company contribution to pension plans, and many other benefits, that the previous generation did not know how to maintain and keep. This young generation also understand the means and ways to address "progressive wage". they won't toss it all away, crying about Union Dues, because they understand better "why they joined and requested Unionized Workplace". They also don't have the race bias, and gender bias of the previous generations that did not adjust to minorities and women making the Union scale that white men had enjoyed.
They also know how to be better "Corporate Watcher's" and they have better technology tools to utilize to do so. They will be better at holding the corporation accountable to citizen consumers as well as employee groups. Once the Union worker enters the administrative office as employees, they have better access to more correct and exacting information.
They will be better equipped to ensure Union Members don't abuse their membership, because they understand the value of maintaining the integrity of the Union.
They are re-learning what people in the 19th and 20th Century learned. They are fast understanding the value premise and beneficial principles of "Unionization".
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The Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class
These experiences, which economic research shows became more common after the Great Recession, appear to have united many young college-educated workers around two core beliefs: They have a sense that the economic grand bargain available to their parents — go to college, work hard, enjoy a comfortable lifestyle — has broken down. And they see unionizing as a way to resurrect it.Support for labor unions among college graduates has increased from 55% in the late 1990s to around 70% in the last few years, and is even higher among younger college graduates, according to data provided by Gallup.
“I think a union was really kind of my only option to make this a viable choice for myself and other people,” said Mulholland, 32, who helped lead the campaign to unionize his New York City REI store in March. Shiflett and Alanna have also been active in the campaigns to unionize their workplaces.
And those efforts, in turn, may help explain an upsurge for organized labor, with filings for union elections up more than 50% over a similar period one year ago.
Though a minority at most nonprofessional workplaces, college-educated workers are playing a key role in propelling them toward unionization, experts say, because the college-educated often feel empowered in ways that others do not.
“There’s a class confidence, I would call it,” said Ruth Milkman, a sociologist of labor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. “A broader worldview that encompasses more than getting through the day.”
While other workers at companies like Starbucks and Amazon are also supportive of unions and sometimes take the initiative in forming them, the presence of the college-educated in these jobs means there is a “layer of people who particularly have their antennae up,” Milkman said. “There is an additional layer of leadership.”
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They will make Union's work they way they should work, they are more educated than people in the 19th and 20th Century, where the average Union worker had a High School Diploma and some had even less for certain jobs under the Union shop. They relied on more poorly educated people as shop stewards, who did not have the educational background to engage the level of critical thinking that was necessary during those periods, and by the time people were misled to abandon Union's the Union Shop did not have the talent in the shop steward roles to deal with the University Educated types in the management and executive sector or in the general work place.
NOW, a new dynamics is involved in what makes up Union Leadership from the top down to the shop stewards. This younger generation are more willing to speak up and build consensus.
they not only will restore benefits the previous generation gave away, they will regain company contribution to pension plans, and many other benefits, that the previous generation did not know how to maintain and keep. This young generation also understand the means and ways to address "progressive wage". they won't toss it all away, crying about Union Dues, because they understand better "why they joined and requested Unionized Workplace". They also don't have the race bias, and gender bias of the previous generations that did not adjust to minorities and women making the Union scale that white men had enjoyed.
They also know how to be better "Corporate Watcher's" and they have better technology tools to utilize to do so. They will be better at holding the corporation accountable to citizen consumers as well as employee groups. Once the Union worker enters the administrative office as employees, they have better access to more correct and exacting information.
They will be better equipped to ensure Union Members don't abuse their membership, because they understand the value of maintaining the integrity of the Union.
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. Hasn’t changed much lol