MONTGOMERY, Ala. Unionists at the AFL-CIO’s annual Martin Luther King conference, held January 12-14 in Montgomery, Ala., tackled what one panelist called a decades-long problem for the labor movement: Organizing the South.
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Progressive foundations have already raised $14 million after a string of victories at Amazon, Starbucks, and elsewhere demonstrated that workers have the potential to push for big changes.