Kim Kelly

“When the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines lessened the immediate threat of the pandemic, bosses saw no reason to keep pretending they valued their employees’ role in keeping the country running (if they’d ever bothered to do so in the first place) or to raise their stagnating wages. As this all played out, the government continued to bolster the fortunes of the rich and fail everyone else. The American working class was being brought to its breaking point, and something had to give. “People are angry and fed up,” Dubal told me. “I don’t think that we can discount the role that those emotions play in the uprisings that we’ve seen among workers in this country [in 2021].”
― Kim Kelly, Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor