Meanwhile in Manitoba, Canada - a province up north somewhere - the NDP passed a ban on scab labor, and improved card check procedures for union representation. 👇

(I've visited Manitoba many times and it's fun year-round, even in the arctic cold)

There are many methods to calculate wages adjusted for inflation, but the BLS Employer Cost Index suggests that the perception by union voters is true: real wages of union workers declined under Biden, and went up under Trump. I was really surprised to see this. 3/

Why is Harris lagging with union voters? A poll of 7 swing states by Bloomberg/Morning Consult suggests one reason: union households believe they were financially better off under the Trump administration than they were under the Biden administration by an 11% margin. 2/

As the election mercifully draws to a close, I’ve been tracking the polls to see how Kamala Harris is doing with union voters in swing states and nationally (but take the polls with a big dash of salt on a margarita rim). 🧵 1/

Got this dubious mailer from the Democrat aligned “Center for Voting Information” threatening to out me to my neighbors if I don’t vote (I’m voting!). It appears vaguely official, and that why I opened it. Shame is not an effective GOTV tactic.

To put data in perspective, only 0.10% of workers in the private sector had the opportunity to vote for a union in an NLRB election. That's better than 2010-20 decade (0.08%, but far below every decade since the 1970s. 3/

www.datawrapper.de/_/ReubH/?v=2

2/ that chart pairs well with Joe Burn's clear and concise Reviving the Strike.
www.igpub.com/reviving-the...

1/ One reason many U.S. unions need governance reform. From 2010-2022, organized labor spent nearly $9 billion on political activities and less than $1b on strike benefits. While this mismatch will improve in 2023, not enough. Details in my newsletter (radishresearch.org/newsletter).