Opinion | After Amazon and Starbucks Union Wins, What's Next for the Reenergized US Labor Movement?

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Opinion | After Amazon and Starbucks Union Wins, What's Next for the Reenergized US Labor Movement?
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'Workers across the country are beginning to reverse a 40-year decline of labor organizing.'

Now, as some of these strikes are gaining momentum, media attention, and the support of high-profile, more progressive members of Congress, is the US experiencing the beginning of a resurgent mass labor movement? And how can the federal government support this organizing?"What's happening is working-class people, fueled by inflation, the pandemic, and a shortage of people to do these jobs, are much more confident and not willing to just take whatever is thrown at them," Larry...

This has also happened amid inflation—and the rising costs of food, housing, gas, and utilities—while the bosses have been getting richer and richer. Over the course of the pandemic, billionaire wealth has skyrocketed. For example, Jeff Bezos is now currently"Too many people right now in the country aren't getting enough from these companies that are bringing billions of dollars to the top," said Will.

This wealth inequality is nothing new. It is the culmination of a 40-year assault on union membership in the country. Currently only aboutworkers are part of a union, down from three times that figure in the 1950s. This was all part of a neoliberal agenda and the decimation of labor.

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