Comment by mdorazio

Bad conclusion (and title). It says right in the article what American workers actually miss - "a source of stable, well-paying jobs, especially for people without a college degree". At the same time, Americans overwhelmingly want cheap goods, which usually means goods not produced with American manufacturing labor. The failure of the economy isn't that unions are disappearing, it's that legitimately good jobs simply aren't taking the place of lost jobs for a large portion of American workers.