[Zzlist-deux] Labor at the Crossroads?

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Labor at the Crossroads?
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Does the labor movement in the US have a pulse? Given the unrelenting drop
in union density (the percentage of workers organized into unions), many
have concluded that labor is in decline both as an effective weapon for
workers and as a social force in US politics.
 It is easy to forget that some of the largest industrial unions arose from
small, but determined organizing committees that faced brutal company
resistance. Despite these obstacles, they grew into powerful forces shaping
the political and social agenda both in industrial cities and on the
national scene within little more than a decade. Unions birthed by the
modest Committee for Industrial Organization in the mid-1930s sprung into
powerful instruments for social change. It was a long standing tenet of
labor advocacy that workers could not be organized and gains made during a
period of high unemployment and diminished profits. And yet some of the
US’s most militant unions came into being and won in the throes of the
Great Depression. In the period immediately after World War II, labor was
often the decisive factor in approving and electing officials, largely
through its pervasive influence on the Democratic Party.
 Today, the labor movement remains yet the most resource-laden, influential
element in a progressive movement itself relatively powerless and adrift
owing to the failing strength and near-dormant militancy of labor.....
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