Imagine that. . . suppress wages, take away job security, retirement security and make people worse off and they somehow get the idea that consolidating their collective power (something big business considers part of their gospel) just might work to their advantage.
There was a well written academic essay that predicted and gave reasons for a resurgence of organized labor, only this time in the white collar sector. If I can find it, I will post it. (Though I got a feeling that I found it on Lexus/Nexus or another database I currently do not have access to.) It was written by a Chicago School Economist who did not come across as an ardent supporter of most unions, but the arguments he makes and the research and scholarship he uses made the case very persuasively.
Basically the thesis was, as best I remember, that the labor movement will, ideologically, be a similar fight to the ones during the New Deal, except that the groundwork establishing the ability to organize is, as Supreme Court Justices like to say, "stare decisis et non quieta movere." So while the fight will be contentious, the venue within which to have the fight is already long established. Getting to the point where there was a "venue" was half the battle of the labor movement in the first half of the 20th Century.