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Chris Brooks

Chris Brooks is a graduate student in the Labor Studies program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a labor organizer living in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

FILE - In this June 12, 2013, file photo, workers assemble Volkswagen Passat sedans at the German automaker's plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig, file) (AP)

How Volkswagen has gotten away with union-busting

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Meet the militant taxi drivers union that Just defeated Uber and Lyft

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(Getty/Phillip Nelson)

After Janus, should unions abandon exclusive representation?

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(AP/Patrick Semansky)

Why we shouldn’t fall for the members-only unionism trap

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(AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

The war isn’t over: Labor can still win in the south

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Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton (Reuters/Brian Snyder)

Hillary’s big healthcare con: The cynical myth she keeps repeating about Bernie Sanders and single-payer

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