Re:More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest nu...
by bumby on Thursday January 13, 2022 @03:33PM
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>Certainly there are tradespeople who make a ton of money, but usually they make less than degree holders.
I wonder how much of this isn't also driven by the reduction in private union membership. I've worked white collar jobs in organizations with strong unions and I'm willing to bet the blue collar workers were probably almost surely, on average, more than the average white collar workers elsewhere. And when I worked in areas with weak union membership, the converse was true.
The difficulty in the former was that it was hard to get into the union, but once you did, you were probably making many multiples of the average household income for the locale.
I wonder how much of this isn't also driven by the reduction in private union membership. I've worked white collar jobs in organizations with strong unions and I'm willing to bet the blue collar workers were probably almost surely, on average, more than the average white collar workers elsewhere. And when I worked in areas with weak union membership, the converse was true.
The difficulty in the former was that it was hard to get into the union, but once you did, you were probably making many multiples of the average household income for the locale.