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With 14 months left to go before the next Presidential election in the United States, Democratic candidates are busy vying for the attentions of the country's trade unions.

There are currently 21 candidates hoping to win the Democratic nomination to run for president in November next year. Most have been romancing organised labour, visiting picket lines and voicing support for striking voters. And this week, Senator Bernie Sanders became the first of them to accept the endorsement of a national trade union.

However the trade union movement in the United States has become a shadow of its former self, which spurred the 大象传媒's Matthew Davies to take an extended look at the American labour movement and where it's going.

(Image: USA Labor movement, workers union strike concept with male fists raised in the air fighting for their rights, American national flag in out of focus background. Credit: Getty Images)