YSG
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Steven, its true that we've lost alot of the labor movement over the last 30 years or so, thanks to Reagan allowing the offshoring of industrial and manufacturing jobs after firing the air traffic controllers. Add that to the fact that this may actually be the first administration in that time to enforce the Wagner Act, and you've got what you have today, a society with insane income inequality, massive amounts of poverty, as well as failing health, education, and infrastructure systems. Unions used to be the most progressive force in the country, which is why conservatives want to destroy them completely.
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