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The state’s just transition plans promised by the Energy Transition Act haven’t panned out for many workers.

"We will protest till the end of our breath,” one protester tells Teen Vogue.

The agreements with actors and writers represent a capitulation by Hollywood’s biggest companies, which started the bargaining process with an expectation that the unions, especially SAG-AFTRA, would be relatively compliant.

In the early 1900s, Ford Motor Company commanded strong loyalty from Detroit’s black workers. But the United Auto Workers broke Ford’s stranglehold through patient organizing, cementing an alliance that would bear fruit for decades.

Glacier v. Teamsters was not a crisis averted but another step in the right’s plan to stifle labor power.

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America is in the midst of the biggest surge in labor activity in a quarter-century. Auto workers, writers, actors, Starbucks workers, Amazon workers, UPS drivers, flight attendants – labor isn’t a ‘special interest’. It’s all of us.

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Unions fear that the auto industry is using the transition toward EVs to advance a second shift away from well-paying jobs.