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Kate Bronfenbrenner, who retired this year from Cornell University, has studied how workers win unions, how employers stop them, how organizers can learn from one another for four decades. Her findings have changed how unions think about organizing.

During a specialized labor session, national civil rights leaders called for deeper integration between union locals and NAACP chapters beyond standard collective bargaining.

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‘Power in the hands of people’: union leaders push to revive ailing US labor movement. Organizers unveil new drive to reverse decline in union membership as workers seek to combat growing wealth inequality

Jackson understood the links between class/race and US foreign policy, in a way that few labor leaders do, recognizing that making these connections was essential to building a powerful workers movement in the US and beyond.

Is it war yet?