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Article Review On the Future of American Labor Name Date Institutional Affiliations The American labor union has failed in its duty to protect the employees. Currently, most of the public unions agree to the proposition that every worthy benefit or wage ought to be balanced by the union’s dispensations like assenting to a two-tier salary scale, surrendering some hours, raised copays or even deductibles for medical procedures. However, these associations have done little to fight for the workers when they are faced with salary reductions, poor pays, unwarranted retrenchments and when they are denied compensation for retirements or injuries. According to Aronowitz, the US labor movement has continued to deteriorate and lacks the voice it had some times ago. By 1990s, the labor had already halved in density from the higher 35 percent membership in 1953. This is just an indication that workers have no hopes in the then merged AFL-CIO (American Federation Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations) who sought to democratize the labor movement. Their so-mediated organizing model that aimed at expanding the membership was an alteration of the core role of the previous service model of unionism that focused on petitioning for the members’ requests. Where the woes may have begun earlier in the 1970s, it was not until the era of Ronald Reagan that the impact was felt. Since then, members of the labor unions have turned to be mere clients. The restructuring of the economy through technological change, and company merges, so millions of workers lose jobs. However, the very union they had betrothed to fight for then never raised a concern. This amongst others is the
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