We salute the ALU for their courage and persistence, which has led them to victory. Beyond contracts and reforms, we will fight alongside them and all class-conscious workers to satisfy long-term our class interests, which can only be met with a final and decisive end to exploitation and oppression.

"Paid sick leave" is the right of workers to both job security and continued pay when we get sick. This right exists in almost every country in the world, but not at the federal level in the US.

This is the third part in our four-part history of the US labor movement, based on an internal RWU-STR Union School presentation.