Matt Patterson, Executive Director of the Center for Worker Freedom, had an article published in Forbes on October 11, 2016, about how union leaders hurt their members by supporting liberal politicians:

American manufacturing ain’t what it used to be.

It’s something that many people lament, but few understand. Nearly forty years ago there were almost 20 million manufacturing jobs in the United States. In 2015, according to the U.S. Labor Department, there were only a little over 12 million.

Traditional Midwest industrial states, like Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan, have especially been hit hard: Each has lost over 200,000 manufacturing jobs since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was implemented in 1994.

In fact, in 2016 there were more government jobs in America than manufacturing jobs. We’ve gone literally from a nation that makes things to a nation that makes, what? Rules and regulations? That can’t be a good sign, especially for the union, working class folks for whom manufacturing has been one of the main avenues to the Middle Class.

Why is this happening?

Union workers have a lot of theories about why their jobs have vanished and their wages declined. Some blame high levels of illegal immigration. Others point to NAFTA and other so-called free trade deals, as well as crippling environmental regulations.

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