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A mass worker education program could support legal co-enforcement while also equipping workers with resources to exercise greater control over their conditions, addressing shop-floor challenges before they become acute.

Right now, it feels like fear is saturating us. But fear, confusion, and delusion are combining to squander the power we could have. There is a lot we can do to help each other combat the source of fear. The first step is talking to one another.

Gregg Shotwell is a retired UAW member who frequently contributes poems to the Blue Collar Review, and is the author of Autoworkers Under the Gun (Haymarket Press, 2012).