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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Robert Reich

Strikes aren’t bad for the US economy. They’re the best thing that could happen

‘As I travel around the country, I hear from average working people an anger and bitterness I haven’t heard for decades.’
‘As I travel around the country, I hear from average working people an anger and bitterness I haven’t heard for decades.’ Photograph: Matthew Hatcher/AFP/Getty Images

America is in the midst of the biggest surge in labor activity in a quarter-century.

The United Auto Workers (UAW), the Writers Guild of America, the actors’ union known as Sag-Aftra, Starbucks workers, Amazon workers, the Teamsters and UPS, flight attendants. The list goes on.

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