Opinion From Amazon to Warrior Met, unions need government protections

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April 7, 2022 at 8:49 a.m. EDT
In this video op-ed, Sen. Sherrod Brown compares today's labor fights to those of the Gilded Age that filmmaker Ken Burns chronicles in 'The Roosevelts.' (Video: UNUM Shorts, Photo: Getty Images/UNUM Shorts)

Democrat Sherrod Brown is the senior senator from Ohio.

A year ago, more than a thousand coal miners with the United Mine Workers of America dropped their tools and walked out of the Warrior Met Coal Mine in Brookwood, Ala. Today, their strike continues, making it one of the longest strikes in recent history.