Unions and Meritocracy

I've frequently argued that an important result of widespread greater meritocracy in college admissions and business hiring (which really started to take hold in the late 1960s) has been to co-opt into management people who otherwise would have become union organizers. 

The New York Times in an article today entitled "The Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class: Since the Great Recession, the college-educated have taken more frontline jobs at companies like Starbucks and Amazon. Now they’re helping to unionize them.", which documents something similar happening now that has been critical to recent major gains by the union movement.