Causes of the Decline of TWUA
Scope and Content Note: TWUA growth was due largely to skillful use of the WLB and to the low-resistance level of employers during the war due to the competition for workers that the higher-paying, war-related industries provided. Both of these factors had disappeared by the late 1940s. When Northeastern mills went bankrupt or moved to the non-union South, the Union was unable to recoup its membership losses by new organization in large plants.