Michael Sainato at The Guardian reports leaders of some of the largest Unions in the U.S. have unveiled a drive to jumpstart the country’s Labor Movement and combat growing wealth inequality under Donald Trump. To make it easier for Workers to join a Union and strengthen the hand of new Unions negotiating with powerful businesses, a string of prominent Organizers have joined together to launch Union Now, a non-profit designed to increase Labor Union Density. “This is really about trying to put power in the hands of people,” said Sara Nelson, the President of the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA)-Communications Workers of America (CWA) - the largest Flight Attendants Union in the U.S. and one of the leaders of the push. She suggested the time had come for Workers to start thinking - in some ways - more like the companies that employ them. “There’s (70%) of Workers who want a Union and (10%) have them,” she said. “If it were a company, they would figure out how to get the product into the hands of the (70%) who wanted it.” The architects of Union Now hope it will provide mobilizing Workers with financial firepower. “The reality is that even if Unions spent all of their money on organizing and all of their efforts on organizing, it wouldn’t be enough,” Nelson said. “They have to also do all the representation of their current Members, have contract fights and all the rest.”

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