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Unions or Abundance? That’s a False Choice.
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 May 11, 2026 | ECONOMY | … [The Roosevelt Institute] report pushes back on some of the criticisms of unions from the abundance movement, mainly that they slow down and raise the costs of building, especially when it comes to housing. The authors point out that construction costs in the U.S. are higher than in countries with higher union density, and have gone up in states that don’t have a strong union presence, indicating that other forces are at play. They also argue that unions are unusually democratic—their electoral and governance structures are actually required by law—and so they aren’t subject to some of the criticisms abundance proponents lob at other “interest groups,” which is that they don’t truly represent the ideals and desires of the people they say they represent. The New Republic
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