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Michael Sainato in New York

‘Power in the hands of people’: union leaders push to revive ailing US labor movement

a person holds a sign that reads 'solidarity forever'
An attender raises her sign during the Union Now rally at Terminal 5 in New York City on 12 April 2026. Photograph: Derek French/Sopa Images/Shutterstock

Leaders of some of the largest unions in the US have unveiled a drive to jumpstart the country’s ailing labor movement and combat growing wealth inequality under Donald Trump.

To make it easier for workers to join a union, and strengthen the hand of new unions negotiating with powerful businesses, a string of prominent organizers joined together to launch Union Now, a non-profit designed to increase labor union density.

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