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The US labor movement is undergoing a period of reckoning as multiple scandals emerge surrounding sexual harassment among labor union officials. On Monday the AFL-CIO’s chief budget office resigned after allegations of sexual harassment, and the Service Employees International Union is still recovering from its recent harassment scandal that ended with four senior staff members leaving. Cornell University professor Kate Bronfenbrenner says that while sexual harassment drives women to organize, it can also stand in the way of collective action. These scandals could not have come out at a more inopportune time, as the US labor movement faces an uncertain future with the current supreme court proceedings.