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Reader Comments: Supreme Courts Rebuffs Trump on Mail Voting; What Kind of Candidates Democrats Run in Future; Reader Offers Advice to Rural Alaska Minimum Wage Fight; Resource for Fair and Free Elections; A Special Event in Honor of the UN Charter.

In his new book, Unions, Race, and Popular Democracy: Building a Progressive Labor Movement (Cornell), sociology professor Kim Scipes examines parallel efforts to build two CIO unions in the Midwest—via the Steel Workers and Packinghouse Workers.

Missions and manifestos

Florida has not been lost because people stopped caring. Florida has been lost because too many institutions stopped investing, stopped organizing, stopped showing up. You cannot write off a state and be surprised when people feel written off.

Big news from Latin America

A new labor nonprofit called Union Now is trying to help workers weather firings, delays, and first-contract battles. We could’ve used their help in our Starbucks campaigns.

UAW recent organizing breakthroughs in auto manufacturing in the South, major nationwide strikes, and decisive contract successes raise questions about what lessons we can and can’t draw from the last few years’ record of wins and losses.

‘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