There is an urgent strike wave crisscrossing the nation. From Starbucks baristas, Amazon workers, Hollywood writers, and actors to auto workers, railroad workers, and coal miners, working and middle-class American families are demanding better wages and conditions to create a better future. After decades of decline and loss, the American labor movement is coming back. 

In Alabama, a right-to-work state, two of the most significant labor battles in decades have been unfolding within 30 miles of each other. ‘American Union’ presents a timely intersectional angle between traditional and new labor organizing by illuminating the struggles, successes, and failures of two unions—one of the oldest in the country and another just getting started—as they build solidarity and fight to improve their lives.  

Alabama, known for its pivotal role in the American Civil Rights movement, has once again become a focal point in the struggle for equality and economic justice. Amidst escalating income inequality and the revitalization of the labor movement, it is essential for all of us to follow and support the battles and solidarity efforts in Alabama which are paving the way for a fairer future for working people.