It’s been a remarkable couple of years on the organised labour movement front.
Mick Lynch, personified what united, well led, strategically thinking unions can achieve for their members and society on the whole.
Set against decades of the decline of the middle classes, in favour of scandalous enrichment of the very few at the top of the political and corporate establishment.
Joe Biden’s presidency, apart from being a bullwark against Russian aggression and imperialism, has also been the most labour movement friendly administration since the seventies.
Hopefully, the organised labour movements the world over, go on from here to strengthen their positions, and wrest proper decent reallocation of wealth from the top 3% to the masses who actually generate that wealth in the first instance.
Robert Reich, sums it up nicely in this article.
Mick Lynch, personified what united, well led, strategically thinking unions can achieve for their members and society on the whole.
Set against decades of the decline of the middle classes, in favour of scandalous enrichment of the very few at the top of the political and corporate establishment.
Joe Biden’s presidency, apart from being a bullwark against Russian aggression and imperialism, has also been the most labour movement friendly administration since the seventies.
Hopefully, the organised labour movements the world over, go on from here to strengthen their positions, and wrest proper decent reallocation of wealth from the top 3% to the masses who actually generate that wealth in the first instance.
Robert Reich, sums it up nicely in this article.
The stunning rebirth of the American labor movement
The pendulum is swinging toward countervailing power
robertreich.substack.com