Apple workers vote to join union, a first for the tech giant in US
theguardian.com
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Why are apple store employees going to be in a machinists union?
Today, Apple generates 1st world jobs in the US, and tens of billions of dollars in export revenue, without unions.
> The US competed just fine before the era of unions
You mean when everyone else was still rebuilding after WWII.
>>You mean when everyone else was still rebuilding after WWII.
The post war era was the era of rising union power, not weak unions. The first half of the 20th century fell mostly outside the post-war era.
Not only did Detroit become the wealthiest city in America, but that wealth didn't come at the expense of its golden geese, which were the Big Three automakers.
So to summarize, the automakers became stronger during the era of weak unions, while Detroit became the richest city in America. In contrast, the automakers became less competitive during the era of a dominant UAW Union, and that culminated in Detroit becoming a ghost town.