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March 08, 2026

Today in 2009
The U.S. Department of Labor reports that the nation’s unemployment rate soared to 8.1 percent in February, the highest since late 1983, as cost-cutting employers slashed 651,000 jobs amid a deepening recession.

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Not Just Unions; Ready-Strike Unions
Updated On: Apr 12, 2025
Apr. 12, 2025 | OPINION | [Note: This is the author’s followup to yesterday’s post.] I wrote a piece for In These Times this week called “Unions Without Strikes,” which was prompted by something very big and very ominous that has been on my mind: the fact that there have been no strikes, or even real hints at strikes, in response to the most egregious government assaults on organized labor since WW2. Today, I want to briefly expand on a couple of points in that piece—one analytical, and one that I hope is of immediate practical use. How Things Work
 
 
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