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In the face of lax enforcement by Biden’s Labor Department, labor organizations have stepped up to protect farmworkers.

For the first time in his life, the man who opposes any "lords and peasants sort of thing" may be learning a lesson in labor solidarity.

Modest goals won’t get us where we need to go. We need to think big. The labor movement needs, before anything, genuine ambition for a new America...We need labor leaders who see their jobs as climbing mountains no matter how high they are.

The 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York killed 146 workers, mostly young immigrant women, and galvanized the U.S. labor movement. After 112 years, there is finally a striking and permanent memorial on the site.

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