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The gap between libertarians and certain conservatives has grown broader in recent years, and nowhere is that divide more evident than in the disputes over the status and legitimacy of the American labor union movement. The new wave conservatives want to revive labor unions as part of their ongoing effort to counteract the dominance of business, professional, and intellectual elites. These elites command too large a share of the pie, so that ordinary working people end up with too little. Only a determined return to a strong New Deal pro-labor movement can restore a rough measure of income and wealth parity on which the well-being of our collective institutions necessarily depends.Read Full Article »