Which of the following statements is true of labor unions? a. The political power of labor unions has waned over the last several decades. b. Most business owners in the United States will make enormous efforts to ensure that their own businesses are unionized. c. The strength of labor unions has increased drastically over the last several decades. d. It is much easier to form and maintain unions in the United States than in most other industrial nations. e. Today members of organized labor make up more than 30 percent of all wage and salary workers.

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Leah Berger

19 April, 08:47

Which of the following statements is true of labor unions? a. The political power of labor unions has waned over the last several decades. b. Most business owners in the United States will make enormous efforts to ensure that their own businesses are unionized. c. The strength of labor unions has increased drastically over the last several decades. d. It is much easier to form and maintain unions in the United States than in most other industrial nations. e. Today members of organized labor make up more than 30 percent of all wage and salary workers.

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Aliza · Answer 1

The statement that is true out of the statements given about labor unions is Option A: The political power of labor unions has waned over the last several decades.

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The political power of labor unions has declined in recent decades in part because of how the labor markets have been changing around the world. The United States has lost a large percentage of its manufacturing jobs to companies who now do a lot of their manufacturing and assembling offshore where labor prices are lower and companies can increase their profit margins. This means there are fewer people employed in traditional industries like the auto industry or at a factory that assembles computers, or some other manufactured goods in the United States. It is the conventional factory that is most closely associated with labor associations that operate on behalf of employees and who represent their interests like unions.