As the US economy continues to stabilize after suffering a very large decline, Union's role in the economy has been a question mark of late. Different groups argue back and forth regarding whether or not labor unions would help or hurt the current US economy. While many can see the advantages of a large web of unions to strengthen the economy, others feel it takes too much of an effort to keep Unions running at top shape. Unions are undoubtedly beneficial to the economy, as they’ve proven to be intertwined with a well educated workforce, a strong economic foundation, and an increase in individual state economy. To start, an economy with a great number of labor unions have a documented increase in employees wages If union coverage rates …show more content…
Those same people claim that Unions are a scam in order to get more money out of taxpayers to higher the quality of the worker and the workplace. While the worry of higher taxes is certainly there, the return back to those same taxpayers of a higher standard of working with more benefits and more stability is clearly a reason to possibly pay more tax money. What would end up happening is while taxpayers may end up paying more, they would also end up making more as a result of the unions they are a part of. The good clearly outweighs the bad in this scenario, and the claim that the government is heavily marketing unions for the sole purpose to raise the tax dollars has no truth behind it. It is the government goal and responsibility to fix the country in which they govern to the best of their ability and fixing the economy is certainly a large part of that. While paying more taxes may come as a result, the government's main focus is to help those who are not prospering, and underrepresented and underprivileged workers would certainly fall under that