Rank and File
Without a socialist left, both inside and outside of unions, organized labor will continue to lose ground.
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American unions are in bad shape — really bad shape.
The numbers are well-known, and seem to get worse every time new ones are released. In 2015, 11.1 percent of all workers were unionized, with less than 7 percent organized in the private sector — the lowest levels since the Great Depression. Strikes, too, are near all-time lows. Unions wield nowhere near the kind of influence they once did in American society.
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