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A Great Week for American Workers
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 Apr. 29, 2024 | U.S. LABOR | Over the past 50 years, you can count on the fingers of one hand the number of weeks that have actually been great for American workers. It was just under half a century ago that California gave collective-bargaining rights to farmworkers for the first time since they’d been excluded from coverage under the 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). In 2018, teachers in Republican states like West Virginia and Kentucky went on strike to successfully compel their states to increase school funding and decrease class sizes, and 2019, a handful of Senate Democrats, chiefly Ohio’s Sherrod Brown, succeeded in amending a rewrite of NAFTA that actually gave workers a modicum of power. In 2023, the new rank-and-file-elected regimes at the Teamsters and the United Auto Workers won historically good contracts at United Parcel Service and the Big Three automakers. Then, the seven days between Friday, April 19, and Thursday, April 25, saw a succession of worker victories that was almost breathtaking in its scope... Recap at The American Prospect
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