""creating an opportunity""
""Over time, unions have lost collective bargaining power, and a lot of that is due to the lack of laws that we need and enforcement of laws,""
""when you have a young Silicon Valley software engineer realize that their performance is tracked or undermined by the same logic as a working-class warehouse picker, class divisions dissolve, and larger working-class movements for dignity are possible. That is what we're starting to see.""
Union membership peaked at about 35 percent of workers in the 1940s and has since fallen sharply due to corporate lobbying, hostile legislation, and decades of free-market narratives. Artificial intelligence poses an existential risk to many jobs and may create shared incentives for collective action across occupational lines. Performance-tracking and automation logic can apply equally to software engineers and warehouse workers, blurring class divisions and enabling broader working-class movements for dignity. Historical foundation-government ties complicate labor dynamics, and recent mass layoffs together with widespread public anxiety about AI increase the conditions for renewed organizing efforts.
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