BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Is slavery back in Alabama? Adam Obernauer, organizing director for the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union—one of five organizations, including the AFL-CIO, now suing to stop it—says “yes.
Keep in mind that that is partly after the fact; not entirely during the post- period of the bill passing.
But I don't doubt that it still goes on, even if it has a hurdle to it.
Keep in mind that while the legislation is a victory in its own right (showing which way the working-class is becoming aware and swinging in a certain direction) it will not be thing that signals the death knell to modern-day slavery.