{"id":71760,"date":"2026-04-15T06:54:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/power-in-the-hands-of-people-union-leaders-push-to-revive-ailing-us-labor-movement\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T06:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:54:51","slug":"power-in-the-hands-of-people-union-leaders-push-to-revive-ailing-us-labor-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/power-in-the-hands-of-people-union-leaders-push-to-revive-ailing-us-labor-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Power in the hands of people\u2019: union leaders push to revive ailing US labor movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organizers unveil new drive to reverse decline in union membership as workers seek to combat growing wealth inequality<\/p>\n<p>Leaders of some of the largest unions in the US have unveiled a drive to jumpstart the country\u2019s ailing labor movement and combat growing wealth inequality under Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>To make it easier for workers to join a union, and strengthen the hand of new unions negotiating with powerful businesses, a string of prominent organizers joined together to launch Union Now, a non-profit designed to increase labor union density.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/15\/union-leaders-revive-ailing-us-labor-movement\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organizers unveil new drive to reverse decline in union membership as workers seek to combat growing wealth inequality Leaders of some of the largest unions in the US have unveiled a drive to jumpstart the country\u2019s ailing labor movement and combat growing wealth inequality under Donald Trump. To make it easier for workers to join &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Power in the hands of people\u2019: union leaders push to revive ailing US labor movement\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/power-in-the-hands-of-people-union-leaders-push-to-revive-ailing-us-labor-movement\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Power in the hands of people\u2019: union leaders push to revive ailing US labor movement\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}