CIO 
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SOURCE: The Progressive
10/10/2022
Is this Labor Surge a New CIO Moment?
Do militant worker actions signal a wave of mass organizing like occurred in the 1930s, when workers established unions regarded as unorganizable took matters into their own hands? Labor historian Erik Loomis and scholar Marilyn Sneiderman discuss how to turn anger into strategy and strategy into organization.
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SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
4/4/2022
With Amazon Union, What's Old is New Again
by Rosemary Feurer
The victory of the Amazon Labor Union in Staten Island doesn't represent a revival of "the 1930s insurgency," but a new generation finding guidance from some of the bottom-up solidarity building strategies from that decade. Today's unionism will have to avoid some mistakes of the CIO to endure.
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