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Week Six with guests Congress Members Becca Balint and Ro Khanna

Deadline Strike Talk

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The Effect of the 80s on the Labor Movement

Taft Hartley overrode Truman's veto of the bill in Taft Hartley, the Republican Congress. They allowed employers to run a lot of campaigns against union organizing. Basically, they made it very hard to organize. And that's why we have only six, seven percent membership in the private sector in unions.

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