Workers and organized labor are cool again. Labor has poll ratings most politicians only dream about, and the Biden administration is making workers’ pay, benefits and rights its calling card. “Working people are reclaiming our power,” AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler declared in her pre-Labor Day speech last week. You’d expect her to say that, but there’s a difference this year: Any labor leader making that claim a decade ago would have been on far shakier ground. Dionne is on Twitter: @EJDionneRead the full opinion at The Washington Post.

Source: Washington Post September 08, 2023 12:03 UTC