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Strength-in-numbers turned into a contract, because one worker is a suggestion and a thousand are a deadline.
means Organized groups of workers who bargain collectively for wages, hours, and conditions an employer would otherwise set alone.
from From Latin unus, one — the idea that many people acting as one body wield power none has alone, formalized in industrial-era labor movements.
Your weekendLargely a union invention, not an employer gift.
Core weaponThe strike: collectively withholding labor to force terms.
Legal backboneUS Wagner Act made organizing a protected right in 1935.
Membership trendSteady decline in private sector since mid-century peaks.