"Striketober,” a new catchphrase coined by the mass media, is yet another mollification of the language used to describe the current labor situation in the US. It makes fighting for one's livelihood sound like some kind of annual beer garden celebration, where the unemployed get to bob for apples in a vat of lager.
Though several unions across several i…
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