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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Steven Greenhouse

Focus organizing drives on workers without college degrees, US unions told

Joe Biden speaks at a union training facility in Accokeek, Maryland, in April.
Joe Biden speaks at a union training facility in Accokeek, Maryland, in April. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

Union supporters have had plenty to applaud with regard to organizing college- educated workers, notching up dozens of unionization victories involving graduate students, adjunct professors, journalists, nurses and workers at museums, non-profits and video-game companies.

But some labor supporters who laud these victories are warning that something is awry, that there isn’t nearly enough unionization of non-college-educated, lower-paid workers, whether factory workers or fast-food workers.

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