America’s Eyes Are on Unions

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The president was on the picket line, and the American public is paying attention to unions. This moment of renewed interest in organizing could energize labor activity in the U.S., but it also turns up the pressure on union leaders.

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“A Genuinely Historic Moment”

“Unions built the middle class,” the president of the United States bellowed this week against the Big Three car companies for almost two weeks, he has picked a side. As my colleague Adam Serwer today, “A president on the picket line, telling workers they deserved to share in the wealth they had helped create, was a genuinely historic moment.”