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It’s Labor Day - that very intentionally least-understood of US holidays. The fact that it’s in September and not on May 1st is, in itself, a fuck you to the Left. Today, it is quite possible that the average young American doesn’t exactly know what a union is
We are in a time when the long and vicious right-wing campaign - from Lochner and Taft-Hartley to Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Janus - has gotten #organizedlabor almost small enough to drown in a small bathtub 🛀 . But we persist nonetheless
Labor’s dire situation creates some new possibilities, though. Our Walmart pointed the way to a new form of organizing that circumvented the old model of union organizing through the NLRB. We’re trying something similar as United Campus Workers here in GA
