Act
to strengthen workers’ rights to organize and bargain for fairer wages, better benefits, and safer workplaces. The comprehensive labor legislation would bolster workers’ rights and address income inequalitycrisisthat has been exacerbated by the pandemic. Intensifying long-running trends, the coronavirus pandemic has benefitted the wealthiest individualsand many large corporations,while workers’ rights have been weakened and income inequality has worsened particularly for women and workers of color.
“America has a severe income inequality crisis – working families are losing ground while the rich are getting richer every day – and expanding the number of workers in unions is a fundamental part of the solution,”
Help Save People s World
The economic crisis has hit People s World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing.
Coronavirus hits labor movement: Union numbers down, density up January 22, 2021 12:16 PM CDT By Mark Gruenberg
Polls now show that two thirds of Americans have a positive view of unions, up from last year. Seeing front line workers, like these grocery workers, carry out their jobs during the pandemic has lifted the opinion people have of workers across the board. | Nam Y. Huh/AP
WASHINGTON The galloping spread of the coronavirus plague took its toll on U.S. unions in 2020, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. But in a paradox, while union membership declined in its annual report, union density rose by 0.5%, to 10.8% in 2020.