Washington Post: Opinion Distinguished persons: Unions break through in 2022
Berry Craig
By JENNIFER RUBIN
American workers have been on a roller coaster for two years. The coronavirus pandemic shut down the economy, leading to extensive layoffs. Kept afloat by stimulus checks and then buoyed by infrastructure and CHIPS legislation that offered the promise of high wages, workers returned in record numbers in 2021-22, though with inflation eating away at their real wages. If job creation and growth now hold and inflation abates, workers and businesses alike may get their “soft landing.” As workers navigate an uncertain future, they will have in their corner a revived labor movement that has made significant gains.