“We’ve lost touch with a whole generation…. The problem is that they [under-30s] don’t think we have much to offer them,” Richard Trumka, the incoming head of the 11-million-member AFL-CIO told the Wall Street Journal.

He plans to rectify that by making union membership more attractive to the 30-and-under set by upping the benefits of union membership. And, of course, by eliminating the secret ballot that unions think reduces their ability to, er, persuade potential recruits of the virtues of membership.