Shenon hussy, who'd set up her own bustling facebook group in wisconsin, says she fielded several emales from doych before deciding to team up. Affiliate groups soon began to organize protests, such as a sleep out on the sidewalk outside the georgiar labor department headquarters. One laid off worker who planned to join july's protest in atlanta decided to stay home rather than use up gas driving her suv 80 miles round trip. By design, unemployed action brings together some people for whom economic instability is old news, and others who were living comfortably pre coved.
This week's Cover Story for Bloomberg Businessweek: 'Workers Press for Power in Rare Advance for U.S. Labor Movement'
Read by Bloomberg's Mark Leydorf.
Along with the Great Resignation and #Striketober, jobless Americans are fighting for unemployment reform that could translate into lasting leverage
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