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July 01, 2025

Today in 1956
 In what was to be a month-long strike, 650,000 steelworkers shut down the industry while demanding a number of wage and working-condition improvements. 
~ Labor Tribune

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Democracy Needs Unions
Posted On: Oct 01, 2019
Oct. 1, 2019 | OPINION | […] By whittling away at workers’ right to a voice at work, right-wing corporate activists have also been able to curtail workers’ voices at the ballot box, too. Unionized workers vote at higher rates than non-union workers. States that have adopted so-called “right to work” laws to undermine unions have seen a net decline in turnout. That’s exactly why corporate lobbyists and their political cronies push such laws — it’s part of their strategy to weaken support for popular proposals that help working people. These efforts work hand in hand with voter suppression, gerrymandering, and other efforts to undermine voting rights — as well as with “carve-outs” to labor laws, which exclude categories of workers like farm and domestic workers. Together these abuses disenfranchise workers and lock in poverty wages..… OtherWords.org
 
 
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