As Black Lives Matter and other social justice campaigns focus more on economic inequality,unions see an opportunity
After decades of decline unions enjoy found a novel champion in efforts to organize workers: the Black Lives Matter movement.
Unions enjoy suffered as manufacturing has moved south absent from their old strongholds in the north of the US. Membership rates were 10.7% in 2016, down from 20.1% in 1983, and according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. At the same time the shift from manufacturing to service industry jobs has hurt them too.
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Source: guardian.co.uk