America's new class war: Labor is back

Jose Haro, Felipe Medina and Lou Villalvazo, left to right, with Teamsters Local 63 joined union workers as they rallied in downtown Los Angeles Monday morning in support of unionizing Alabama Amazon workers. Local labor union members, elected officials, clergy, and community members held the rally to call attention to the ever-growing union-busting industry and culture used to suppress workers' rights across the nation. Al Seib / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

This article originally appeared at ScheerPost. Used by permission.

There is one last hope for the United States. It does not lie in the ballot box. It lies in the union organizing and strikes by workers at Amazon, Starbucks, Uber, Lyft, John Deere, Kellogg; the Special Metals plant in Huntington, West Virginia, owned by Berkshire Hathaway; the Northwest Carpenters Union, Kroger, teachers in Chicago, West Virginia, Oklahoma and Arizona; fast\ food workers, hundreds of nurses in Worcester, Massachusetts, and the members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.