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The New Republic | The Disillusioned College Grads Turning to the Labor Movement by Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein Starting in about 2005, something nearly unthinkable began to happen: The lifetime value of a college degree began to decline. Up until then, and really for quite a while afterward, a degree was considered a smart bet on a person’s future income and prospects. Possessing a college degree (any degree!) generally meant higher income. At the late date of 2013, Barack Obama called higher education an “economic imperative.” Once upon a time, very few people got college degrees. About 6 percent of the population in 1950 had one (which itself, thanks to the GI Bill, was a remarkable high). College was, at some level, affordable, and by 2010 degree holders received a glorious 75 percent pay bump. And if you didn’t go to college, no sweat: Nondegree holders had plenty of options for work that paid OK, too—for instance, in skilled trades like electrical work or union jobs in hospitality. Over the years, more and more people went to college, and today more than 50 percent of working-age adults have college degrees. Overall, they still make more money than people without college degrees. But after 2005, the ever-rising prospects for degree holders began to slouch. The job market for grads shrank, wages flatlined or backslid, and college got so expensive that the debt some people took on to get their degree almost permanently ate into their expected windfall. Degree holders had been promised the world, and a vaunted place in the professional or managerial class. Yet five years after graduation, only 55 percent of college graduates were employed in jobs that require a degree, according to a 2024 report. Many ended up working in the service industry. Caught in low-wage, often precarious jobs, some sought to form unions. Read more: https://newrepublic.com/article/208726/mutiny-review-college-educated-labor-unions #big-tech #culture #labor #organizedlabor #unions

RE: https://phpc.social/@ramsey/116109626593551373 30% of India’s labor is unionized. 90% of the unionized labor joined the strike. ALL THIS INFORMATION IS IN THE LINKS I PROVIDED. yes, close to 300,000,000 workers ―in a country of +1 BILLION― did not show up to work in India on the 12th of February of 2026. THAT’S WHY IT IS HISTORIC AND NEWS WORTHY. #India #generalStrike #labor #unions

UNION STRONG! The number of workers covered under union contracts increased to a 16-year high in 2025, despite ongoing attempts by the Epstein Regime to wipe out collective bargaining agreements for tens of thousands of federal workers #UnitedStates #workers #union #unions https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/18/union-membership-increase-trump-assault

🚨UNION STRONG!🚨 #union #unions #unionstrong #work #workers #WorkersRights https://apnews.com/article/nevada-brothel-sex-workers-unionizing-eacf41f41bee5cfe5c13d3dfc4a1887c

Proud to announce that my upcoming #nonfiction #picturebook is This Is Your Fight! Genora Johnson and the Flint Sit-Down Strike, to be published by Harper Collins next year. And it's being illustrated by The Brave Union (artists Kevin and Kristen Howdeshell)! Yesterday marked the anniversary of the end of the 1936-37 strike- one of the most successful in American history. Workers occupied GM factories in Flint and persuaded the automaker to recognize the UAW. Photo shows Genora (second in from the right) with fellow members of the Women's Emergency Brigade- a group she organized to protect the striking men. #unions #UAW #laborhistory #labor #generalstrike #books