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US labor law is designed to prevent railroad strikes like the kind that shook America in the past. But the constant cuts to staffing levels and erosion of conditions for rail workers could produce a national rail walkoff by September.
For over half a century his reports on the labor movement, in The Nation and elsewhere, were a model of activist journalism.
Young people in the labor movement want to bargain on climate issues in contract negotiations.
The union push comes as public opinion about organized labor is the most positive in decades. A Gallup poll last year found that 68% of Americans approve of unions, the highest share since 1965.
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