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Labor Day 2023: Year of the Union
Unionizing is en vogue this year.
The American Prospect’s Harold Meyerson declared it, “A Labor Day Like No Other.”
“With public support for unions at near-record highs and new federal rules that actually enable organizing, unions need to mount massive campaigns,” advised Meyerson.
Union organizers are determined to strike while the iron is hot. From Hollywood to automobile factories, Starbucks to REI, employees are unionizing and attempting to unionize.
For progressives, President Biden gets the credit.
“In a larger sense, Biden is the first president to undertake the replacement of the market neoliberalism of the past four decades with an updated (and emphatically not white-only) version of the pro-worker policies that defined the New Deal,” Meyerson flattered. “That includes reinvigorating the administrative agencies, which are crawling their way back to their original strength. No such task proceeds in a perfect straight line, and there will always be disappointments. But there hasn’t been enough recognition of what both Biden’s legislation and his regulatory agencies are accomplishing for the nation’s working class.”
Conservative news outlets naturally disagree.