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    Research ● Labor Unions

    Watson Commentary: Making the AFL-CIO great again: labor policy in 2026

    January 20, 2026 // The biggest labor issue of all might be the changing composition of what remains of the union movement. Goodbye, manual-labor men; hello purple-haired they/them grad students.

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