On This Episode: Unfortunately, union power has been weakening for many years. Many laws and court rulings now work against workers instead of protecting them. Politicians often look away, and corporations use their money and legal teams to delay until workers run out of energy and give up the fight. Globalization has added another challenge. Companies can move jobs overseas or hire cheaper labor abroad, and this makes it harder for local workers to negotiate for wages that cover the basic cost of living. Industries that were once supported by strong unions have been stripped down and reshaped, leaving mostly unstable jobs behind. Workers are often told they should be grateful just to have these insecure positions. In many places, trying to form or join a union is not only difficult but risky. Workers can lose their jobs, be denied future opportunities, or even face threats for organizing. But these outcomes are not accidents, the system is structured as it is so that economic and political power remain concentrated at the top, while most workers struggle to stay afloat. Though that doesn’t mean resistance is dead. Workers are still forming unions, staging walkouts, and sometimes celebrating those small improvements. Those victories matter, but they are getting harder to achieve and they are rarely changing the overall pattern. Power continues to shift upward, and workers are in a perpetual grind to hold on to ground that was once much more secure. In this episode, we wonder where things stand now: it's been a long period of decline, it's full of occasional sparks of pushback, and it's all surveyed under a system that is designed to make any meaningful progress slow and it often feels as if each step forward is quickly followed by many steps back.Connect with UsProudly Hosted by RedCircle: https://www.redcircle.com/tylersgrimremindersNow streaming on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6c2m7rYw9N0lE0YQSMz47BSubstack: https://tylersgrimreminders.substack.com/If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe to our podcast on your favorite platform. Please also leave us a review and let us know what you think. Your feedback helps us create better content for you.Thanks for listening :)ResourcesResources can be found on: https://tylersgrimreminders.substack.com/

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