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Michael Rosen on the national resurgence of labor unions

By Frederica Freyberg | Here & Now

September 29, 2023

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Retired Milwaukee Area Technical college economics professor Micheal Rosen considers the significance of a UAW strike as labor organizing by workers grows in an environment of broad wealth inequality.

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