1954's Salt of the Earth told a powerful story of American labor

The struggle of railway workers was at least three years in the making. The recently-announced agreement between freight rail workers and the corporations that oversee their labor contracts, reached after 20 hours of negotiation, is hardly the end. While both elected Republicans and Democrats have ignored, dismissed, and downplayed the demand of the workers in this sector of the economy over the past decade, rank-and-file workers within different sectors of the freight transportation industry have continued to organize. — Read the rest