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I doubt it. Unions are their own worst enemy in the USA, they've done such damage to their image here that it would take a pretty drastic upset in the employment economy to make them relevant again.
I doubt it has they have less and less to offer. If you look they mostly represent older decreasing numbers type jobs and lower paid jobs as always. The problem with those lower paid is they do not in this day and age have much labor withdrawal power as jobs are simple.
Remember the era when the unions were strong. The auto industry was a good example. Unions battled management on every issue. They fought for higher wages, better benefits and to prevent efficiency and automation. There was plenty of featherbedding and detailed job descriptions and workplace rules. It seemed that the unions could not lose. Workers even sabotaged some of the cars coming off the assembly line in order to show management who was in charge. Unions won lots of battles, but lost the war. I bought my first foreign made car in 1966 and had a better price, better quality and better reliability than any car available from Detroit. I think the unions believed they had the political clout to see tariffs raised but the general population had had enough. Those jobs and almost the entire city of Detroit have ebbed to a low level.
Hopefully, a good workplace can be created by a union of employers and workers. US labor unions won't allow this, nor will many employers, to wit, the likes of Walmart. The Walmarts of the world are winning the class struggle; the US labor unions have defaulted.
Unions had their time and place back in the day. Nowadays they hurt workers more than help them.
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