Opinion | Unions are growing more popular. Democrats should talk about that.

Opinion by Paul Waldman and Greg Sargent: Unions are growing more popular. Democrats should talk about that.

So the party is redirecting from its more neoliberal orientation in the 1990s . And talking about organized labor more could help signal that party shift to voters.

“In this moment, when working-class people are again on the move and trying to organize against the biggest companies in the economy,” Podhorzer told us, “Democrats can fill in the blank and show whose side they’re on, by supporting them.” . Democrats have an opportunity to explain to the public that this increased power is good for workers, and that unions are a crucial vehicle for fighting to maximize it.“Workers have built bargaining power, benefit from it, like it, and are going to keep organizing for more,” Nafisah Ula, organizing director at Jobs with Justice, told us in a statement, adding that politicians should signal clearly to workers that they “are going to support them and deliver results.

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