On Labor Day, Freedom Foundation prognosticators and their conservative fellow-travelers will inevitably revel in their tired prediction about the demise of the U.S. union movement. While there may be a kernel of truth in their statistics — “organized labor only represents 6.4% of the private-sector workforce” — their misplaced reliance on numbers is misleading.
It doesn’t begin to recognize today’s unfolding story of a newly invigorated union movement.
