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What are some of the reasons that membership in labor unions declined in the 1950s?

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Government started backing business again and not labor.
Most demands have been met. No work on Saturday, or Sunday. Eight hours of work a day. Jobs started moving to the south, where there was less union.
Then jobs started shifting overseas.