From the column: "If we assume unions intrinsically serve workers’ best interests, this might make workers the ones who now enjoy the outsized bargaining power that their employers once had. But because we don’t live in an ideal world, it’s not necessarily workers who possess that power. It’s unions themselves."
One hundred forty years ago, the first Labor Day parade almost ended before it began. On Sept. 5, 1882, thousands of union workers, police officers and gawking onlookers gathered at City Hall in lower Manhattan. Everything was in place, the route was set and the marchers were ready to go,
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