Unions Are Back in Favor. They Need to Seize the Moment.
A revived labor movement is needed to reverse decades of income inequality.
The atmosphere is ripe to restore some power to working Americans.
Photographer: Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg
Labor is having a moment the likes of which it hasn’t experienced in decades.
In Joe Biden, the labor movement has the first full-throated, pro-union president since Harry Truman. A drive to unionize Amazon.com Inc. warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, is being watched closely as a possible harbinger of a broader effort to unionize nonmanufacturing industries. And earlier this month, the House passed the most sweeping pro-union piece of legislation in nearly a century, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, which seeks to strip away some of the advantages companies have long had in successfully fighting off organizing drives.