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At Home and Abroad, the Labor Movement is Coming Back

Posted On: May 05, 2015

May 5, 2015 | US LABOR | njtoday.net …Just a few short years after it was declared dead and almost buried, the labor movement has come roaring back. Behind it has come a powerful bipartisan sentiment that it is time to pay workers something better than poverty wages. In the past few decades we have regressed to the wealth stratification of the 1890s. Perhaps now we can return to the majority view of the 1930s that unions have a positive role to play in a stable, healthy economy. Full story...