This past year has been an incredibly exciting one for the American labor movement. The latest Gallup poll revealed that unions have a 70 percent approval rating, an historic high, and the younger generation has embraced the movement with particular fervor. Starbucks United workers brought the coffee giants to the bargaining table, the Amazon Labor Union officially joined forces with the Teamsters, and tens of thousands of graduate student workers unionized. Federal standards to protect coal miners and workers who labor in extreme heat finally inched closer to implementation, and dancers in Washington State organized to win a Strippers’ Bill of Rights. Article continues after advertisementBoth the Harris and Trump campaigns have courted union members with varying degrees of success.