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    Commentary: A new generation is reviving unions. The old guard could help

    by Steven Greenhouse, Los Angeles Times May 24, 2022 3 minutes
    Union organizer Christian Smalls speaks following the April 1, 2022, vote for the unionization of an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York.

    This is the most exciting — and promising — moment for the nation’s labor movement in decades thanks to the landmark union victories at Starbucks and Amazon, as well as the spread of union drives to well-known companies like Trader Joe’s and Apple. To find similar excitement about unions, one would have to go back to the 1930s and the victorious Flint Sit-Down strike against General Motors, which inspired a tremendous wave of strikes and union drives across the U.S.

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