The American Labor Movement
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Excerpt from The American Labor Movement: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Employement and Productivity of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session; On Examining Where the United States Is in Terms of Labor Management Relations A The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice at 10:00 a.m., at DePaul University, in 342 Lewis Center Lecture Hall, 25 East Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, IL, Senator Paul Simon, (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senator Simon. Opening Statement of Senator Simon Senator Simon. The subcommittee hearing will come to order. This is a second in a series of hearings taking at look at where we are in the United States in terms of labor/management relations and particularly, labor membership. If you take a look at Canada, Western Europe, Japan, you see a much higher percentage of working men and women organized than here in the United States of America. There has been a decline for a variety of reasons. We´re now - compared to Canada, where you have about 35 percent of workers organized, for example, Western Europe, 40 percent and higher. We´re down to 16 percent and if you exclude the governmental employees, we´re down to about 12 percent. That is not good for business. It is not good for our country. I say it´s not good for business because studies show very clearly the satisfied workers are more productive workers and studies show also very clearly that union workers tend to be more satisfied workers. So that union membership, in fact, adds to productivity in the country, in addition to safety factors and other things like that. There is also the impact that this has on where the country goes and that is also a concern of mine. As you look at the progress that we have made over the years, in having a Social Security, having minimum wage, having child labor laws, labor unions really led the way on that. And as you have a diminished voice for labor unions, you have a diminished voice for things that are important to our country. There is no question in my mind that if we had 40 percent or 35 percent of workers in our country organized that we would have a healthier program in place. We wouldn´t be talking now about what we´re going to do and I could give you other illustrations of that. How do we get there? How do we improve the situation? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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