Thanks to Terry Streiter for sending us this.
By Stacy Mitchell
Ms. Mitchell is a co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a nonprofit research and advocacy group that seeks to protect communities against concentrated economic power.
In a welcome joining of forces, labor unions and small-business advocacy groups this month supported an antitrust bill that would give New York State sweeping new authority to sue corporate titans like Amazon for abusing their market power in ways that harm competitors or workers.
Labor and small business make an unusual political pairing these days. The idea that small businesses are aligned with big businesses and opposed to labor unions took hold in the 1980s and has been conventional wisdom ever since.