Counterpoint: Unions still vital for worker equity

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

I grew up in the 1950's in Levittown, Penn., in a working-class family, believing in the American Dream. My mom was a nurse, working the 3 to 11 shift at a nursing home and, when I was 9, my dad, a truck driver, was permanently disabled in a terrible accident.

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