March 28, 2010
Is a reason why the unemployment rate is high is to the fact of Labor Unions organized ridiculous demands?
Which in then turns to the CEO’s to make the decision to screw the american workers and hire workers from another country as an outsource to get the job done?
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No.
Not only is union membership very low (12.4%) a very large number of those union members are government employees and so have no effect on outsourcing production to other countries. Even among the private sector union employees, most are in service jobs not manufacturing.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm
As for ridiculous demands, union members had
median usual weekly earnings of $886. That corresponds to about $46K a year, which is still under the median household income in the U.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States