Originally Posted by jtdavis:
I never said that unions create jobs, I asked if unemployment was lower when union membership was higher.
Looking at Bureau of labor statistics and Wikipedia, I found this: In 1953 union representation was 35% and unemployment was 3%. In 2014, union representation was 11.3% and unemployment was between 6 and 7 percent. I found my answer.
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Again, you picked the period just after WWII, when the US was the only major industrial power with standing plants and an workforce not decimated.
During the 1930s, union membership was high, but unemployment was about 23.6 percent in 1932;