UAW Membership Jumps By 6% Last Year - Are They Staging A Come Back?

Quit with the political crap. Answer the dang topic. I notice your replies always have some political dig.

If you compare where the UAW rank and file membership was in the 70's, 80's and early nineties, to where their numbers are now, I'd hardly say they are mounting a big comeback. They won't be making a comeback in the factories down south. Nobody cares to have the pot smoking UAW membership in those auto factories.

Think "market share", not relative growth. I remember Macintosh Fanboiz dancing in the streets about Macintosh sales being up over 30% as compared to the previous year, while not being aware that world market share was still below 5%.

So in the UAW's case, if manufacturing increased its ranks by 9% and UAW membership increases its ranks by 6%, the UAW is losing market share.

I can't wait for the UAW to go the way of buggy whips and spittoons.

Also, from the article: "The total is about one quarter of the 1.5 million members the union had at its peak in 1979."

Hardly what I'd call a come-back, oo9. Looks like the dinosaurs are slowly dying off -- in 3 decades of economic and manufacturing growth, UAW membership declines by 75%.

Who needs unions? We should let the corporations decide everything.

If by "comeback" you mean a long, slow, and painful decline into irrelevance, then yes.

A 6% jump in one month doesn't undue 40 years worth of declining membership.

Agent009,

I can imagine the look on your face: disappointed must be lacking in expressing your disgust with this.
Why aren't the Unions dying- you must be puzzled.