Labor Historian Robert Forrant is a Professor of U.S. History and Labor Studies at the University of Massachusetts who recently authored a Labor News Story that was published on The Conversation.  It read, in part: What do Violinists, Grocery Store Clerks, College Dorm Counselors, Nurses, Teachers, Hotel Housekeepers, Dockworkers, TV Writers, Auto Workers, Amazon Warehouse Workers and Boeing Workers have in common?  In the past year or so, they’ve all gone on Strike, tried to get co-Workers to join a Union or threatened to walk off the job over an array of issues that include retirement plans, technology replacing Workers and lagging wages as inflation increased.  The array of Americans who are organizing Unions extends to the Tech, Digital Media and Cannabis Industries.  Even Climbing Gym Employees have formed a Union.  This is happening as U.S. Workers in general are finding themselves in an increasingly precarious position.  As a Labor Historian, I believe mobilization is the result of economic disruption caused by the relocation of jobs, the impact of new technologies on work and the erosion of income stability.  It’s become very unlikely that today’s Workers will have the same employer for decades, as my Father and many Men and Women of his generation did.

To Continue Reading This Labor News Report, Go To: Autoworkers, Boeing machinists, cannabis drivers: Labor unions are mobilizing in new and old industries alike (theconversation.com)