Liz Medina: ‘Same old rich man strategy’ used to oppose workers’ rights — with a new twist

This commentary is by Liz Medina, executive director, VT AFL-CIO.
What keeps the few in power over the many?It’s simple: divide and conquer. The “same old rich man strategy” — in the words of the artist collective the Peace Poets – is as old as the institutions of colonization and slavery. The British Empire and the emerging plantation class in the United States stoked racial resentments to prevent landless Europeans and enslaved Africans from standing together acr