Nathaniel Denaro

1 week ago | policyalternatives.ca | Jon Milton |Nathaniel Denaro

For private sector unions, the overarching trend of the last forty years has been one of decline. The rise of neoliberalism during the 1980s ushered in a wave of deindustrialisation and the offshoring of jobs in industries with high levels of union density. Nationally, this translated into a nine per cent decline in membership, from 37.6 per cent in 1981 to 28.7 per cent in 2022.