Three stories of real Americans
Millions of Americans exercise their right to take part in a union every year. Unions make the middle class strong by ensuring that workers have a strong voice in our economy and our democracy. But union membership is declining, and the middle class is shrinking.
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The fate of unions is the fate of the middle class. Period.
The Center for American Progress Action Fund produced a video series, Unions Make the Middle Class, documenting what is at stake in three real stories of how unions make the middle class.