Labor Relations in the US and Canada
The peculiarity of the American setting is perhaps best understood by comparison to Canada—a similar economic setting in which fundamental differences in labor law (in Canada it is easier to from a union and harder to get rid of one) have widened the gap. At the end of the 1950s, about a third of each county’s workforce belonged to unions; today, the Canadian rate is
essentially unchanged while the American rate has fallen to near 10 percent (and less than 7 percent in the private sector).
See Kris Warner, Protecting Fundamental Labor Rights: Lessons from Canada for the United States (CEPR, August 2012); Dan Zuberi, Differences that Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada (2006), chapter 4; James Atleson, Law and Union Power: Thoughts on the United States and Canada, Buffalo Law Review (1994).
essentially unchanged while the American rate has fallen to near 10 percent (and less than 7 percent in the private sector).
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