The planned and averted one-day strike by state workers in California is the exception, not the rule, in our time.
Strikes used to be much more common because union membership used to be much more common. But union membership has slid over three decades, and so has union influence.
Management professor at Colorado State University argues that declining unions means a declining middle class. He makes a strong case in his book . We pick professor Hogler's brain about the road to today, and what he sees coming down that road.
