Labor and Delivery

David Sirota

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Dear Reader,

When was the last time you saw a good story about the SEIU on CNN.com? Or watched top-notch coverage of a Hormel workers' strike on your local ABC affiliate? Or read about an organizing victory by Georgia textile workers in Newsweek? Yeah, me neither.

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Yours truly,

David Sirota
Senior Editor

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