"New York has a reputation as being a tough union town."

For a Southern city, Memphis is a tough union town.

"This was the best union town in the country," he wrote.

"I just can't understand why anybody who lives in a union town would be against it," he said.

So far, many parents in this union town are supporting the teachers.

In this union town, there were plenty of skeptics.

"New York is a union town," progressive politicians have long said with pride.

His activism helped keep Milwaukee a union town, where new grocery stores were quickly met with organizing activity.

Like the other strikers, the brothers grew up in a time when New York was a union town.

"I'm a union man and this is a union town, and we are all out here to support the players."