Members of AFL-CIO unions joined striking writers and actors on the picket lines Tuesday in New York, Los Angeles, and other cities in a National Day of Solidarity to support the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA. As a retired member of the Communications Workers of America, Local 31222 (News Media Guild), I put on my union cap and the Solidarnosc-Warszawa (Solidarity-Warsaw) T-shirt I’ve kept since my days as a correspondent covering the first strikes by the free trade union movement in Poland in 1981. I then walked the picket line stretching two blocks with several hundred union members outside the corporate offices of Amazon and HBO in the Hudson Yards district of Manhattan. 

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