• cogman@lemmy.world
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      It mostly started with Reagan in the 80s and was continued by Clinton in the 90s. Both republicans and democrats abandoned unions almost in lock step.

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        Did they abandon unions because they stopped being effective political blocs?

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            Union membership was declining to the point where it probably wasn’t a thing worth politicians chasing. There’s a bunch of reasons for that decline, but they definitely weren’t the force they had been

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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      The discussion at hand is a bit more modern, Republicans abandoned unions shortly after the civil rights era.