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How COVID Changed the Landscape of U.S. Labor Organizing
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 Nov. 21, 2022 | U.S. LABOR | […] In 2020, a few important shifts happened in the way workers organize. First, workplace organizing and social justice struggles outside the workplace began to cross-pollinate each other. Before the pandemic, the working class was mostly siloed in their own occupations or industries. In 2020, however, a frontline class emerged across multiple essential industries, leading to worker organizing efforts that bridged those divides, and even spilled over outside the workplace. Half of the mass strikes that year were led by nurses, but their picket lines attracted all kinds of other essential workers in solidarity, learning from those on strike, and then building their own movements back at their jobs. Moreover, social justice movements like Black Lives Matter began talking about the “Strike for Black Lives,” using the language and tactics of labor to address white supremacy and police violence. The other thing that changed was that workers took matters into their own hands in ways that had not happened for decades. In These Times
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