Trade unions in the UK and US have become more powerful despite political interference and falling memberships
- Written by Steven Daniels, Lecturer in Law and Politics, Edge Hill University
In September 2023, Joe Biden became the first sitting US president to join strikers on a picket line. He told car workers that they “deserve a significant raise and other benefits”.
Even more surprisingly perhaps, those same workers – in a dispute with three of America’s biggest car manufacturers – were later praised...
