But a trend that’s ongoing mainly unbroken for 7 a long time can’t be chalked around existing economic circumstances. Instead, it reflects the failures of union leadership and the brokenness of the system that hasn’t been revised since the Great Despair. In actual fact, according to the NLRB's individual data https://www.salon.com/2011/01/27/rand_paul_kicks_big_labor_when_it_is_down/