Labour unions in America

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Today the labor movement in the United States faces the re sponsibilities of a great economic and social institution. It has moved from absolute weakness to comparative strength, and through its wide activities has buttressed our democracy. At the same time, since it is in a democracy that unions function, it would be a distortion to exaggerate their power American un ions have progressed from rejection to a high level of accepe ance. But like any other essential organization in a free society. the union movement is subject to independent scrutiny as well as to self-examination Unions came into being through the loy alty and sacrifice of men and women who understood their wig nificance; the unions today are sustained by those who seek their improvement.