Graph courtesy of Kevin Drum at Mother Jones. Blue collar wages hit a peak in the early ‘seventies. That was followed by a long slide downward, especially during the Reagan years and into the mid-nineties.

Sarah Jones at New York magazine reports that 40 Senate Democrats have introduced the PRO Act – Protecting the Right to Organize – to boost workers’ rights to organize, strike, and sue employers who violate those rights.

For the life of me, I don’t understand why Bill Clinton and Barack Obama weren’t all over legislation along these lines.