2024-10-08
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In the recent past, we haven't really thought about unions as being particularly powerful.
But over the past twelve months or so, we've seen unions, from Starbucks workers to auto workers, rack up a series of successes.
Yeah.
And in the last few days, of course, weve seen the Longshoremens union face down the United States Maritime alliance.
So unions appear to still have some mojo.
And this despite the best efforts of business over the years to neuter organized labor.
And those efforts really began with something we heard a lot about while the Longshoremen strike was the Taft Hartley act on Todays show, well learn what the Taft Hartley act is, why it was created, and why it is still such a thorn in the side of unions today.
That's coming up after the break.
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