Unions might decrease lifetime earnings, while also killing off the industry entirely...
For example, classically union heavy industries like coal mining... And weaving...
For example, classically union heavy industries like coal mining... And weaving...
Interestingly, black lung cases have increased in the last decade https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/updates/upd-07-20-18.html I wonder if that correlates with union membership?
(And killing the coal mining industry can't be anything but a good thing)
The slow production decline is more related to veins that are getting too deep to mine or running out and there was also the Obama era moratorium and leasing federal lands for coal mining.