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At Home and Abroad, the Labor Movement Comes Roaring Back
Updated On: Apr 22, 2015
Apr. 21, 2015 | UNIONS | billmoyers.com 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 last 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...
 
 
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