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Robert Kuttner celebrates the success of New York’s Local 6 that represents more than 40,000 restaurant and hotel workers in America’s largest city. It has something that has vanished in most industries—serious worker power, even in a pandemic.
Terri Gerstein shows how degraded working conditions and labor law violations have been aggravated by COVID-19, and workers clearly can’t count on Trump’s labor team. State justice departments are stepping into the void.
 
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Steven Greenhouse looks at the Brooklyn Friends School’s move to kick out its union. Why is this and other institutions that say they are committed to social justice undercutting the very coalition required to to make progressive change happen?
Kelly Candaele reviews a new book about the Hardhat Riot, a 1970 battle between construction workers and anti-war activists that left hundreds wounded. This is when, the author argues, the Republicans began to lay claim to the white working class.
 
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