"Even in an environment hostile to organized labor, unions and workers can advance through taking back power on a local and regional level. While the neoliberal economic agenda of the U.S. and key international organizations do not take into account worker rights, organized labor is winning campaigns on a local level that in the future will lay the groundwork for a stronger labor movement. In the most unfriendly regions that are hostile to worker organizing, local labor councils are waging campaigns to advance labor rights by supporting ongoing worker organizing that will engender power down the road. Through mobilization of members and nonmembers, organized labor is defeating politicians beholden to big businesses and electing labor-friendly officials on a local and regional level. As workers are displaced by corporate restructuring and shift production, unions must employ regional models of organizing to reach workers in their communities and new workplaces."

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