Labor Trends

Due to the condition of the United States economy, the national labor union condition can best be described as fluctuating in a downward direction. This fluctuation is more severe because of the corporate trends and escalating efforts to both outsource and export lower paying, blue-collar jobs. This situation is causing extreme difficulties in the U.S. while broadening the global labor position.
The U.S. economy has 3.2 million fewer jobs today than it did when President Bush was elected, including 2.5 million fewer manufacturing jobs. In the past three years, nearly 1 in 5 U.S. workers were laid off from the job according to The Disposable Worker: Living in a Job-Loss Economy, a Rutgers University report released in late July. Among workers laid off from full-time work, roughly one-fourth was earning less than $40,000 annually. To further effect the job market, in July, a total of 15 million workers were unemployed, underemployed or discouraged by the lack of success in their jo...