Corporate efforts to gut unions — like a recent attempt by Delta to persuade workers not to unionize — has led to their decline, fueling income inequality, stalled wage growth, and economic mobility, writes Steven Greenhouse for CNNOpinion
Steven Greenhouse was a New York Times reporter for 31 years and is author of Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor, to be published by Knopf this August. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely his own. Read more opinion articles at CNN.
While union leaders say these posters insult workers' intelligence, there is no denying that Delta has had considerable success beating back unionization. Delta is the least unionized major US carrier, and thanks to its aggressive anti-union campaigns, organizing drives by the flight attendants' union were defeated in 2002, 2008 and 2010. Delta's flight attendants narrowly rejected unionizing in 2010, with 9,216 voting for and 9,544 against.
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