“Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.” 

—Ronald Reagan

“With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men  than ever existed.”

—Clarence Darrow

“The underlying reason for organized labor’s decline is that our labor laws do not let people join unions freely and  fairly without being fired.”

—Barbara Ehrenreich and Thomas Geoghegan

To a remarkable extent, the level of inequality—which fell during the New Deal but has risen dramatically since the late 1970s—corresponds to the...

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