Organized labor in the United States enters this Al Jazeera Fault Lines episode already weakened, with unemployment at nine percent and its longtime ally, the Democratic Party, treating union support as a given rather than something to fight for. The film tracks a wave of Republican governors moving against public sector unions, stripping bargaining rights that in some states had stood for fifty years, and frames it as part of a broader push in swing states that could blunt Democratic turnout in the next presidential race. It also shows labor pushing back: in Wisconsin, unions occupy the state capitol as 100,000 protesters fill the streets, and in Ohio, voters overturn a law aimed at gutting collective bargaining. Interviews with union members, politicians, and labor experts lay out the economic pressures, from globalization to changing technology, that have hollowed out membership over decades. The film closes on the Occupy Wall Street movement as a possible new ally for unions, and the open question of whether organized labor can convert that public anger into actual power.