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    20 hours ago

    They were captured decade ago, first by organized crime and then by the industries. Unions have never modernized for the digital age.

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      12 hours ago

      There has also been a huge, prolonged campaign of union busting specifically to weaken their power in these political scenarios

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        But that has been happening since unions first started, when they burned strikers and their families alive.