Unions seek gains in hostile territory: ‘If you change the South, you change America’

Union organizers expressed optimism that bringing in workers from the places least friendly to unions could have impacts on workers nationwide. A Treasury Department report released late last month said boosting union power benefits the middle class and the economy overall.

That report, by the way, can be found here. One of the interesting points made is that the relative diversity of union membership, coupled with the union wage premium, means that unionization can benefit the living standards of a more diverse group of citizens.

So remember kids, it is great to spill pixels about fighting injustice and dismantling capitalism … by all means go for it … but if you really want to change the economic status quo and support economic mobility for everyone, at least in the short term, unionize.