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June 20, 1977
Oil began traveling through the Alaska pipeline. Seventy thousand people worked on building the pipeline, history’s largest privately financed construction project. 
~ Labor Tribune

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Is It Time for Unions to Rethink Everything?
Posted On: May 09, 2025
May 9, 2025 | U.S. UNIONS | … [Labor union activists and experts interviewed for this article] all agree that defending federal workers is an urgent, critical battleground for the labor movement in this moment. And now, watching the president forcibly strip hundreds of thousands of workers of their union representation only intensifies the stakes. But to be clear, the union still exists. Those workers are still organized into a union and still maintain their labor leverage. Lacking legal protections under labor law raises retaliatory risks considerably and cannot be dismissed, but ultimately a union is defined by the rank and file and its leverage—not labor law. The question of labor militancy, it seems, is increasingly on the minds of workers, both unionized and not. Worker militancy means “building up the confidence of every worker to take action in their own defense as a group. It’s about workers having agency and entering the stage as actual actors [instead of] these passive recipients of whatever it is the political establishment or their bosses are willing to give them.” The Nation
 
 
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