Why Are Unions Outdated

I do not agree with the National Right to Work Committee’s opinion piece about unions being outdated, not beneficial and asking employees to drop their membership and to not pay union dues. In this essay, I explain why unions are vital in our times, why they benefit employees and why the NRTW wants employees to drop the union membership and stop paying dues.
Why Unions are not outdated
Unions are not outdated. We need unions to and to protect ourselves from the employers and advocate the employee. We use the union as a tool to collectively bargain for better wages, better working conditions, benefits and to file grievances. Unfortunately, it is the same story throughout history from the biblical times in Egypt, using Hebrew slaves to modern times, paying wages that are so low, the employee still have to get food stamps or even in the NYC Parks department, some of our seasonal employees are homeless. The power is naturally skewed in favor of the employer simply because they provide jobs. "In our economic system, these
The union redistributes the wealth to the low income. Whenever there is low membership in the unions, there is a huge disparity between the low income and the high income and there is little middle class. According to the EPI report, following the passage of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), we saw “decades of faster and fairer economic growth that persisted until the late 1970s. But since the 1970s, declining unionization has fueled rising inequality and stalled economic progress for the broad American middle class. When unions are weak, the highest incomes go up even more, but when unions are strong, middle incomes go up.” (How Today’s Unions Help Working People, Aug. 2017, Economic Policy Institute p.