Civil rights activists, women, students, environmentalists, and everyone is affected. At the same time, it has continued to get harder and harder to go through the legal process set up in the 1930s to organize a union. As always, the unions remain far and away the most powerful part of the progressive movement in America. In fact, they are the only ones that could stand up to a full-scale assault by the employers. Continuing the process of forming alliances between labor and other progressives is vital.
All progressive forces are under attack by the same forces and for the same reasons.
We have to unite to win. Jobs with Justice is good at uniting various progressive organizations. That s what we do. To further that excellent effort, I recommend an historical explanation of the factors that caused our long slide. The statement isn't exactly true, but it ought to be if we are to be successful and it might become fully true if we continue trying.