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How to Unionize Your Workplace

Back in the 1950s, nearly a third of the American workforce belonged to a union. That number has cratered in recent decades due to a multitude of factors, but a shift in law and policy that places an increased focus on unfettered markets, as well as a raft of anti-labor laws, have been primary motivators of a gradual decline in workplace organizing since the early 1980s. In 1983, 20% of the U.S. w