doom
The sort of union-based realpolitik that Nathan Newman & John Lacny are defending is a perfect example of why density is going to zero. It all may make some sort of bureaucratic sense in the short term, but in the long term it’s doomed.
There’s still some time though: given the current rate of decline, private sector union density won’t hit 0 until sometime in late 2030 or early 2031; at 7.7% in 2005, it’s falling at the comfortable pace of just 0.29 percentage points a year.
Doug