This Labor Day, a reminder of what unions really do

Daily Kos Staff

Monday September 01, 2014 · 6:00 AM PDT

2014/09/01 · 06:00

This Labor Day, remember: It's not just that workers do better in unions than not, though they do:

It's that when union membership declines, the entire middle class does worse:

See below the fold for some bonus charts.

And whatever you hear about union spending on elections, that's money from millions of working people, and it's dwarfed by the Koch brothers alone.