Between bi-partisan purges of "commies" fed gov and "pinko" in every civic organization they could haul into a hearing, Taft-Hartley Act (1947) and the Youngstown (1952) gamble to enforce it retarded the market power of workers, organized "resistance" to domination of labor by capital in USA for generations to come.

All was not well when the GIs returned. Industrial action in USA during the so-called golden age of TV in the 50s is nearly lost to history.

Here's where the millenials are today, ostensibly led by "progressive" flights of fancy from a trench across the "developed" nations.

UNION MEMBERS -- 2018   The union membership rate--the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of unions--was 10.5 percent in 2018, down by 0.2 percentage point from 2017, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions, at 14.7 million in 2018, was little changed from 2017. In 1983 [REAGAN admin!], the first year for which comparable union data are available, the union membership rate was 20.1 percent and there were 17.7 million union workers. ...

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.