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America has seen a dramatic decline in the proportion of the workforce that is unionised after probably having reached their pinnacle of power just after World War 11. The Taft Hartley Act and Right to Work laws came in despite opposition from Harry S Truman and the trade unions began to decline the fall being partially masked by a rise of public employees unionised.
Suppose the Taft Hartley Act failed to get on the statute book maybe Truman was able to veto it owing to the republicans not winning as many seats. Also suppose the FBI had concentrated on mafia infiltration in trade unions rather than alledged communist infiltration and the difference between militants who are out to improve working conditions and those with other agendas that could involve wrecking industries. A bit like the difference between Brother Harvey and the functionalists in Heinlein's the Roads must roll. Could the decline have been halted or maybe delayed as in the UK. Canada has one of the strongest trade union movements in the world and it has had ILO friendly governments none of which have been socialist. Could America have followed the same road?