AHC: More Unions in the Service Sector

One notable thing about unions is how they primarily exist in the capital goods sector, even in generally left-wing nations like Canada. It may appear that they can only exist in this sector. However, the existence of teachers' unions and the like show that unions can exist in the service sector. My challenge to you is to make unions in the service sector more commonplace.
 
if people during the 1980 presidential campaign understood, look, a tax cut is great to rev up and get the economy moving again, but this whole business with the Laffer Curve where it will advance the economy enough so that the federal government takes in more money with a lower rate, well, that one we'll have to wait and see. But in OTL, people did kind of understand this in their own fashion.

Maybe if people had taken it a step further. Look, we're going to have to try different things in order to replace the good middle-class auto jobs we have already lost and that we're likely to keep on losing. That means we're going to have to keep trying different things.
 
You would need to have more service sector jobs be looked upon as trades like plumbers and electricians. But most people dont look at service jobs in that way. They are usually short to intermediate term jobs that plug a time and monetary gap. Once circumstances change, the people move on. It's hard to expand union membership with that type of mentality so prevalent in so many of these jobs.
 
. . . But most people dont look at service jobs in that way. They are usually short to intermediate term jobs that plug a time and monetary gap. . .
I think you've hit the nail on the head.

Why have Civil Rights organizations for African-Americans been largely successful? Well, because the members anticipate being African-American for their entire lives. And same for Jewish organizations, and remember there used to be quite a lot of subtle and not-so-subtle discrimination against Jews. Again, the members anticipate being Jewish all their lives.

But even with a crappy economy, people don't anticipate being unemployed or underemployed for all that long.
 
there could be more of a widespread ethic of, leave it better than you found it. I mean, in regards to temp jobs.

Maybe a timeline where leftwing pragmatic economics fly at a much higher trajectory?
 
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