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Danielle Kaye

Why workers are resorting to more strikes this year to pressure companies

Fliers from a recent UAW strike in Chicago. (Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)

Fifty years ago, in the early 1970s, Joe Uehlein was a construction worker in Pennsylvania, building a bridge over the Susquehanna River.

The job was dangerous – leaks in some of the structures placed in the river put the workers' lives in danger of drowning. But Uehlein's boss was ignoring these concerns.

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