Private Sector Union Is Good for Us

Private Sector Union is good for U.S Labor unions in U.S are legally recognized as representatives for labors of industries in U.S. The trends private-sector labor unionism in U.S has steady fallen since 1920s and continues to 2010. Unions allege that employer-incited opposition has contributed to this decline in membership. Especially, the private-sector labor unions accounted for the majority of the declination from 18.5 percent to 9 percent among the entire industry. (Slaughter, 2007, Fig.1) Globalization seems contributed to the ongoing decline of U.S union coverage. The decline of private sector has been relentless in manufacturing while the integration of U.S companies into the world market has been rising. The questions about whether the private-sector labor union trend falling good or not good for U.S have attracted a lot considerable attention because there has wide relationship between private-sector labor unionization and U.S government and labor law; it impacts a lot on industrial and economics, as well as policymaking and business like on productivity, and employment rate.( Kaufman) Private sector labor union should be good in U.S because labor unions increase the productivity of industry, the effective adoption of high performance work practices, and given higher hourly wage. First and most important reason that private-sector unions are good for U.S is that unions associated with lower employee turnover and effective workplace communication, which helped improve the productivity of industries and the economy growth in U.S. During 1945-1973, the high percentage of workers union with the effect of wages kept the productivity rising and prosperity was widely shared, which made economic growth strongly. Since 1973, union density declined, and real wage were caused to stagnate despite rising productivity, which may contributed to the current financial crisis and severe recession. According to a recent survey by Doucouliagos, Christos and

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