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History not only explains how the industrial Midwest became Trump country, but also how the area's politics may shift in the years to come.
Although the raw number of union members increased last year, the overall share of workers belonging to unions dropped slightly.
“We have organized, marched, participated in sit-ins and wade-ins, and gotten ourselves arrested,” recounts civil rights heroes Norman Hill and Velma Murphy Hill.
Dockworkers threaten a strike for increased wages and for control of the longshore workforce.
The Democratic governor both embraced and rebuffed union priorities in a year of surging labor activism.