A new breed of leaders are atop the largest US unions today. Here are some faces to know

The boiling point we’re seeing today comes amid soaring costs of living and rising inequality.

NEW YORK — There will be no Emmy Awards this week and there are thousands of auto workers on picket lines in Missouri, Michigan and Ohio in a seemingly rapid reemergence of organized labor this year.

Unions have nowhere near the pull, or members, that they did decades ago, yet something has changed. There’s no single explanation, but the boiling point we’re seeing today comes amid soaring costs of living and a widening gap between what workers and top executives are paid. Thousands of workers who were asked to make sacrifices during the pandemic

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