There's some amount of hope for the future of unionization here in the United States, ironically because the covid epidemic sent so many workers home and now they don't want to return to ridiculously low wages. This morning I passed a Bob Evans restaurant whose front sign advertised that help was needed at great wages. People are in no hurry to go back. When I expressed optimism that some states have raised the minimum wage to $15, a colleag ...

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There's some amount of hope for the future of unionization here in the United States, ironically because the covid epidemic sent so many workers home and now they don't want to return to ridiculously low wages. This morning I passed a Bob Evans restaurant whose front sign advertised that help was needed at great wages. People are in no hurry to go back. When I expressed optimism that some states have raised the minimum wage to $15, a colleague asked, Who can live on that? Read on for some history of the labor movement and the huge decline in labor rights since the seventies. 

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Marta Steele is an author/editor/blogger who has been writing for Opednews.com since 2006. She is also author of the 2012 book "Grassroots, Geeks, Pros, and Pols: The Election Integrity Movement's Nonstop Battle to Win Back the People's Vote, 2000-2008" (Columbus, Free Press) and a member of the Election Integrity movement since 2001. Her original website, WordsUnLtd.com, first entered the blogosphere in 2003. She recently became a senior editor for Opednews.com. She has in the past taught college and worked as a full-time as well as freelance reporter. She has been a peace and election integrity activist since 1999. Her undergraduate and graduate educational background are in Spanish, classical philology, and historical and comparative linguistics. Her biography is most recently listed in "Who's Who in America" 2019 and in 2018 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Who's Who.